PreviousFriday 2 June 2006, 5:21 PM
Great distro, especially on laptops!
I've tried a variety of Linux distros on my laptop, with varying success.
Ubuntu's hardware detection is excellent on my aging Toshiba Portege 7220.
A number of the comments posted here say it is not for hardened Windows users but I'd have to disagree with that. I can do EVERYTHING I used to do on Windows, with the only exception being playing games (and even that is changing! Windows users moaning about not being able to play games, look at Wine or Cedega, not to mention the number of games being ported to Linux. Remember, Google is your friend!). My laptop is too old and slow to run Windows XP but Ubuntu gives me an XP like experience without having to buy a faster laptop. Those looking for a more XP like interface may want to install Kubuntu instead, which is just Ubuntu with a KDE interface and KDE applications, the underlying OS is the same.
Highly recommended Linux distro, closely followed by SUSE Linux.
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