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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3310883" data-attributes="member: 20741">I won't argue that installing linux for most people is a total pita.But Ubuntu is different. Ubuntu is linux for people who don't LIKE linux. It's the linux community's attempt to make a slick Windows like  OS for people who really don't like mucking about with stuff and who have not seen a command line in a loooooooong time (if ever).It is as easy to install as Win XP. Really, it was. The experience is essentially identical to Windows XP - except that at the end of the installation process, Ubuntu has also installed OpenOffice and some other common internet based stuff that is actually pretty impressive and very convenient. And of course, Ubunto was not bugging me for install codes and bugging me to register  this that and everything else on first boot.OpenOffice for 95% of users is every bit as friendly, intuitive and easy to use as MS Word and its compatible with MSWord. Not a small point at all. It looks and acts the same as MS Word for the most part. I got to admit, I was rather impressed with this. The only knock on Ubuntu is the inability to run DirectX games. Given that games are what I do - that's not a small point  for me. In fact, it was a deal breaker. Games aside though, you can put in an Ubuntu disc and "it just works". Interface is every bit as intuitive and for the most part identical to Windows in all the major respects that matter.The free disc package thing even ships with an extra Ubuntu run time version of Ubuntu linux.  Put it into your CD tray - let it boot and it will do a temp install just to memory to let you try it out without actually installing it on to your hard drive.For this reason, it's now my rescue disc of choice for Win XP. If something goes horribly wrong, Ubuntu is my version of a Norton life preserver. It is utterly reliable when all else fails.And Ubuntu is free,  as in FREE<beer>. Log on here:<a href="https://shipit.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">https://shipit.ubuntu.com/</a>Just fill out the box and ask them to send you a disc - and damn it -  they do.  No spam. No nagging. Just "Send me a disc please" 1-2 weeks, the discs arrives in the mail in this slick little cardbord dual CD folder.  And they don't ask you to pay a single cent for it. No S&H charges, Nothing. Nada. zip. SW: "I want a disc please. Come to think of it - make it four."Ubuntu: "Here you go."It's worthwhile just to have one as a rescue disc for XP, even if you don't plan to install it.I'm not a great fan of linux and the linux advocates tend to drive me nuts, they really do. But for all that, this Ubuntu stuff really is pretty damned impressive.</blockquote>

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