Speed

With other popular operating system vendors you need to buy new hardware almost every time you upgrade operating system to a newer version. With Linux, when you upgrade your system, you should expect that it will be working even faster then previous version on the same hardware. Imagine that you can use newest Linux systems even on machines as slow as Pentium 100MhZ. The user experience is of course lower on older computers, but it works!

If you have a look at hardware requirements for software/games that are simultaneously released on Linux and Microsoft Windows, you will see that Linux versions always need less resources to run the same applications.

Linux is secure enough not to need virus scanners running in background. It is an important difference, as antivirus software often consumes lots of machine's resources and slows it down.

Oh, and you should be prepared not to see blue screen ever again.

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Who is using Ubuntu?

Check out who and why is using Ubuntu Linux. Read the stories below.

Morgan, Student

Ubuntu is an amazing operating system. When my desktop running Windows got a virus and wouldn't boot, I installed Ubuntu. Installation was quick and easy. This computer now runs Apache, phpBB3, and a rocking Armagetron Advanced Server.

Dan Palmer, Student

I was a Windows user for all of my life until I was introduced to linux early in high school. However I didn't know enough about it at the time to use it.

Now I use Ubuntu along with Mac OS X as together they make the perfect system. The only thing I was worried about was Linux's apparently terrible support for wireless networking. I have to use the internet wirelessly, so this was an important issue for me. But I decided to try Ubuntu anyway.

After a very quik install and reboot out of the Live disc, I logged in for the first time havinginstalled no drivers myself, and the first thing I was presented with was a box saying: "Ubuntu has found a wireless network. Would you liek to connect?". So much for bad wireless support! It supported the encryption on my network as well, which is more than I can say for Windows Vista which didn't support anything above WEP!

Linux is the perfect OS replacement for Windows. Get it now and be part of the revolution!

Brandon, Student/ Laptop DJ

I've collected tons of music over the years and in trying to get rid of a virus in my root directory; i ended up killing my entire windows partition. But, thank God, I had most of my tunes backed up and I had been in week 2 of trying out Wubu. So I made the switch. And I am never looking back. Linux is absolutely amazing, and I can't seems to see why I didnt make the switch earlier. And with the soon to be released Mixvibes cross software, i'll never have to "live without walls" a roof, heck i have an open grassy knoll to run on. and its amazing.

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