Speed

With other popular operating system vendors you need to buy new hardware almost every time you upgrade operating system to a newer version. With Linux, when you upgrade your system, you should expect that it will be working even faster then previous version on the same hardware. Imagine that you can use newest Linux systems even on machines as slow as Pentium 100MhZ. The user experience is of course lower on older computers, but it works!

If you have a look at hardware requirements for software/games that are simultaneously released on Linux and Microsoft Windows, you will see that Linux versions always need less resources to run the same applications.

Linux is secure enough not to need virus scanners running in background. It is an important difference, as antivirus software often consumes lots of machine's resources and slows it down.

Oh, and you should be prepared not to see blue screen ever again.

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Who is using Ubuntu?

Check out who and why is using Ubuntu Linux. Read the stories below.

K. Eldridge, Student/Security guard/Freelance Computer Tech

I had heard of Linux years ago, but it wasn't for me then. I had grown up rather literally with Windows, from pure DOS to 3.2, (yes, 3.2) then 98. I was given an old Thinkpad a30 before starting college (after coming out of the Army) and XP did not really run quite right on it. Little too slow for me, so I put Ubuntu 7.10 on, and it even ran compiz pretty smoothly. I was hooked.

I used that little laptop till the system board died. (My little brother is trying to resurrect it)
I duel boot with XP now on a nice Inspiron 1520, and the only thing I boot into XP for is to play games and to watch movies on Netflix. (grr @ Netflix)

Ubuntu is seriously one of the most stable, polished OS I have come across. And no, you do not need a degree to get it working, or to pay for support. The forums are all ya really need.

Martin Rosberg, Enterpreneur

I started trying Linux about 1.5 years ago, after a couple of tests with different distributions I downloaded a Feisty live CD and tried it on my laptop. With no programing experience at all it was not so easy to adapt, but I managed to make it work perfectly on my computer and after 6 months of dual booting I found out that I was just booting on Ubuntu.

Since then I changed computers twice, and I only installed Ubuntu on them.

Chris Lucier, Self-Employed Computer Consultant & IT

I first started using Ubuntu by dual-booting it on my XP machine. After using it for a while, I had a few friends try it out for themselves to see if they like it.

I finally made the complete switch to Ubuntu upon the release of Ubuntu 8.04. I currently use an ASUS Eee PC with Ubuntu 8.04 installed. It runs fast, smooth and looks way better than any Windows machine I've ever run.

I've also used OpenSUSE, and a few other Linux distros. I liked each one for various reasons, but Ubuntu is the one I really like the most.

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