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TheCurator

After Dell started admiring Ubuntu, there was nothing but bliss. I had WindowsXP Home Edition with MS Office 2003. It was nothing but a bunch of bad software bundled together and slammed on my face and my Inspiron6400 was nothing but trash. At one time, I had almost 243 viruses through my pen-drive wriggling into my system and dozens of spywares. It was pathetic. Windows simply gave me sleepless nights as mostly I have to do market research and my IE7 was nothing but a piece of bad code gone worse. Then, came the big bang Vista, and Dell offered me the same at a nice priceline. I was driven into it. And got further into trouble. Vista, spoiled all I had. Dell did a good job of upgrading but then they didn't tell me that Vista is the real Devil in garb of the Abominated Monster WindowsXP. It had no virus problems, but nothing ran. Kudos to Microsoft. They have done great to deal with viruses, "Simply make your software totally incompatible!". My Docs,PPTs,XLSs all went haywire.
Then after almost a month of toiling I contacted Dell again. My money was gone, MS had robbed me. But they gave me a solution-- "Ubuntu". I started with Edgy Eft, then upgraded to Fiesty Fawn and now have Gutsy Gibbon. Thus, it has been almost 1.5 years I have been using Ubuntu, and to tell the truth it keeps improving my experience. I recently bought a pack of the Ultimate Edition. It is superb. The Vista can't even think of the graphical genius that Compiz has developed.
For me it is safe (no viruses or spywares), easy to use (Gnome is so cute and easy to use), easy to upgrade, easy to maintain, easy to find softwares of choice with nominal prices from communities (not the exorbitant prices as of MS... guys I am an Indian and I do not have those deep pockets, and I hate pirated software, they compromise security), easy to find help at nominal prices.... Dell is giving a nice support backbone for Ubuntu.
And I know that soon other manufacturers will follow suit as a Vista Lappy costs $1100 base and Ubuntu Lappy costs $685 base with one year support and YoY support for $29.99.
Thus, make your choice, I have long left Windows behind. They are bunch of robbers selling a Re.1 stuff for $100.
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