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Ubuntu 7.04 review

7.3

Editors' Rating

Very Good

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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