I love Ubuntu…

Back in January, I erased my Windows XP partition and installed Ubuntu as my primary operating system. I had tried Ubuntu a few times in the past, and I’m pleased to say the transition has been great. As it turns out, all you have to do is get past the concerns and take that one big leap.

I wouldn’t say that Ubuntu is amazingly better than XP.  However, I think that the small differences make it worth using.  A few nice examples:

• Not having to run an anti-virus program
• Easy to find and install programs, all it takes is a few clicks in Add/Remove programs or an apt-get line in terminal(I’ve learned to love it)
• Fast and completely painless system/software updates
• No driver hunting (if you’re lucky haha)
• It’s really, really stable

My two pleasant surprises of the week are:

I needed to scan a document so I plugged a printer into my laptop and used the XSane Image Scanning program included in Ubuntu. It worked flawlessly with no fiddling.

I accidentally opened 14 songs with VLC at the same time. The system slowed down to a crawl with all of the songs playing over each other. I exited out of the individual instances of VLC one by one and everything was fine. The system wasn’t frozen and no restart was required.

I know those are really simple things…but man, the simple things make all of the difference.