ok, i'm jumping on the bandwagon with ubuntu

thelightofsound wrote in post #3572766
wow!! TONS of information here. thank you so much. i tried to get it going last night, but couldn't juggle it with a photography deadline. i appreciate all of your input. thanks again

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Don't know if you've already come across these, but if you are setting up Ubuntu for the first time and are not that experienced with linux, you may find these sites invaluable:

http://ubuntuforums.or​g/
http://ubuntuforums.or​g/forumdisplay.php?f=1​6
http://ubuntuguide.org​/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

Steve Beck wrote in post #3575280
if you call those major apps, then great for you . Just like you I am giving my opinion and find the OS useless. But you dont good for you. Don't come bickering at me for telling my opinion though....

You don't happen to work for a major software company, do you?

Just kidding!

I'd like to use linux more... but lack of decent, easy to find and use color-management seems to me to be a major drawback. Also it was a weeklong chore to try to get my wireless card working in my laptop (THEN I replaced my hard-drive with a larger one, and just didn't feel like going through that hassle of figuring it out again.)

It's fun to play around with though... I'd definately do a dual-boot system to get the hang of it though... there's just too many apps I use in windows to get rid of it.

(BTW: I think OpenOffice is one of the great open-source apps... can read and write to MS office formats easily, and without cost of MS's bloated app; first time I ever heard of it was through linux several years ago.)