More OSes mean more choices
Those Windows Vista screenshots sure look nice and I bet it has a ton of cool blogging and surfing features, but Ubuntu 6.10 is worth a look. I downloaded it yesterday and tried it out on a old system at home.
One neat trick - you can try the operating system before committing to it. It comes as a LiveCD, so you can run it on your computer off the DVD drive without installing it over your existing operating system. Test out the features as much as you want. If you like it, click on an icon on the desktop to install (it detects your old operating system and will set up a dual boot for you if you like). Don’t care for it? Eject the DVD and boot back into your regular OS with no changes to your system.
Is it compatible? Ubuntu works with every single processor TigerDirect sells, every motherboard, and every video card, etc.
Me? On my main unit I have a 160 GB disk with Vista (strictly for games) and a 160 GB with Fedora Core (for everything else), set to dual boot. On the laptop I run Ubuntu 6.06, and will upgrade it to 6.10 tonight. Screenshots? Stay tuned.
“Which Windows Vista would you like? Our 5 different versions run from “Cheap and crappy” to “Great and the most expensive OS ever released.” Needless to say, I can’t wait to buy 5 liscences of Lepoard, the most advanced OS ever made, for the price of One “Windows Vista: Mediocre Edition”.
TigerDirect, SELL MAC STUFF!