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Had any one used Ubuntu. I was thinking of installing this on my Laptop. I heard that it is very good and stable Operating System and as i use my Laptop for only finance related things and also for stock trading i would like to go with it. I just wanted your reviews it is a good OS and shall i go with it.

In my opinion any opensource operating system including Ubuntu is for those people who have got nothing to do and like to boast about their operating system. If you have any better things to do then surfing the net all day long to find Ubuntu compatible softwares and hardware drives then just go for Windows or Mac if you like to be different.

I am not opposed to open source .. Just look at it this way : if Ubuntu was really so much better then Microsoft would have shut their shop long ago and the billion dollar company would have been history by now. So I will keep using windows till that happens and this is going to save me a lot of my precious time which would be wasted by using Ubuntu.

Guys sitting at Microsoft are not idiots.. they have been running their business very successfully and are on top of the OS market which can only be achieved by providing the best of the best and thats what they have been doing till now.

So Microsoft it is for me Go pick up an Ubuntu CD if you like to fiddle around and waste your time.. I would rather be making money

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Well i am also planing to move to Ubuntu. It is a good operating system and admin as of the compatability then people who want to use there Pc for certain thing can get those working very easily and more over it is very much safe UNLIKE Windows.

Yes you can get things to work but for things to work you first need to do some work whereas in windows you just click your way through and every new script or software is compatible with windows and some with mac.. you would hardly find any commercial software which would specify that it is compatible with Ubuntu. My point here is that it takes up so much of your time. Why not stick with something which has been proven to work very well over so many years and has such massive support behind it. Report an issue to Microsoft and they will get their entire machinery to get it sorted out asap.

I too agree with admin that Microsoft scores over the linux in terms of easy usability and other features, although security wise there is a flaw with microsoft, but they are plugging up all the flaws and improving everyday, after all they are the ones who made our lives easy to use the computers with their easy to use windows os! I too vote for microsoft.

Admin... no offences... but till date they havn't been able to build up a stable operating system which does not crash... how come they would be able to handle so many different errors?

I have heard a lotof things about Ubuntu and the best thing i like in it is that we ca have 4 virtual desktop and more over this Operating system does not need that much of a system resources.

Well it is eating less system resources because it does no have that much compatable programes and when there would be the same number of compatable progr. as on windows then you would see it would also consume the same system resources.

I have two computers and i have installed Ubuntu on one and Window XP on other system but for any finance related thing i like to use my Ubuntu system as they are more stable and more over they are also very much more reliable.

I have downloaded Ubuntu many times from there website but i am always facing problem as it does not work. Can any one tell me from where i can get a working ubutu.