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.

Fox Buchele, Student

I started using Ubuntu when my hard drive crashed, erasing Windows. I didn't have any backups or Windows cds, so I installed Ubuntu single boot, because it was free, and I needed to type some papers.

A year and a half later, I've learned so much more about computers and I continue to use Ubuntu, single boot, and laugh at people that get viruses, or have their Windows machines crash for no reason.

Ubuntu on my computer was the smartest technological decision I ever made.

Anthony, Student

I have been using Windows for ages, and it just hated me, no matter what I it would give me errors. I re-installed it so many times and it went so slow, booting took about 5 mins. That with 2gb RAM and XP Home. Anyway I heard of Linux. I have slow internet so requested a free CD and it arrived with a collection of stickers. To begin with it was a bit confusing, trying to run binaries without compiling them but once I found the repositories it was so easy and the community is excellent. After installing Compiz, Wine, Emerald and Banshee I have everything I need. OK, some game don't work under wine but the nibbles game installed by default it amazing. We would bring in the live cd and play it during our maths lessons. Anyway. For those of you who like M$ then fair enough. But for those of you who are constantly bugged by errors Ubuntu may save your sanity, as well as your wallet.

Gaurav Galia, Linux Administrator

I am using ubuntu for doing my system administration job.
Along with that I have replaced my home windows XP machine since a long and dont realize why I have used for this much amount of time.
I am really feeling satisfy that I am not paying anymore to anything that I want to do .. even I can do more and more quickly with Ubuntu.

The community is excelent in supporting the newbies as well as professionals to get in to it.

Thanks a lot Canonical for such a wonderfull road ahead.

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