Editors' Rating
Typical price:Free
Verdict
Ubuntu is very user-friendly but not right for everyone. Oddly, both casual and advanced users will find this operating system wonderful, while day-to-day users may rail against Ubuntu's incompatibility with certain popular software applications. Still, this is a great leap forward for Linux with the mass audience... Read Full Review.
Pros
- Free
- Reads Windows- or Mac-saved Office files
- Comes with Firefox, OpenOffice, several multimedia applications and a VoIP application preinstalled
Cons
- Won't run most popular software, so you'll have to learn new applications for word processing and spreadsheets
- The new Desktop Effects is still experimental and produced a handful of glitches
- Some wireless and webcam drivers are missing
- The OS was unable to wake up sometimes and kept losing time or gaining it on our test machine
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