Why Ubuntu excites me more than Windows or Macintosh
Apr 29, 2010, 13:02 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Hugo Rifkind)
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"You know that thing that happens on your computer, when you are
using Windows? When you ask it to do something, and it thinks about
it, and then it keeps thinking, and then you go off and make a cup
of tea, and it's still thinking, and you want to headbutt the wall,
again and again, until gets all smeared and red and bloody and bits
of your brain are raining down on to your shoes? Yes? Well, there's
a way to stop that happening. Stop using Windows. Use Ubuntu
instead.
"Ubuntu is an operating system. If you don't know what one of
those is, Google it, and then come back. The latest version comes
out today. I'm writing this yesterday (confusingly) and I'm
actually quite excited. Pathetic, isn't it? Look, bear with me.
It's not easy writing in a passionate fashion about an operating
system. It feels a bit like having a favourite type of petrol, or
mounting a vigorous advocacy of a particular shade of lightbulb.
But dammit, if you work on a desk, these are the environs are our
worlds. Mine used to be Windows, and now it isn't. And, as a result
my life is better. Sad, but true.
"Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution of Linux. What does that
mean? Buggered if I know. If you do, and you are feeling a powerful
urge, already, to recommend a different version of Linux, then let
me stop you right there. Is it easier to use? Is it prettier? No?
Well, not interested. Move along."
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