Why does everyone use Ubuntu?

[crepe]

Because it works. I have spent sixteen hours over the past two days trying to make opensuse 11 work for me. Every fix causes at least one more problem that needs to be fixed. There is no end to it. I am going back to Ubuntu as soon as I can find the two hours I will need to make the change. Goodbye.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by crepe

Because it works. I have spent sixteen hours over the past two days trying to make opensuse 11 work for me. Every fix causes at least one more problem that needs to be fixed. There is no end to it. I am going back to Ubuntu as soon as I can find the two hours I will need to make the change. Goodbye.

I searched on your user name, and I found only one post where you asked for help, and in that post you replied to your own post, noting you had a solution.
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I could not find ONE other post from you asking for help.

Are you so skilled that you don't need help for these other problems you note, but provide no details (presumably to ensure you don't get any suggestions for help)? ... Heck, I don't know one Linux user yet who has achieved the level of Linux knowledge where they never need any help. Not one. We all need help on different things.

As for Ubuntu, I have friends who use and like it. Best wishes in your efforts there.

[Sagemta]

Perhaps, he is one of these people:
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[xaro]

I've been an Ubuntu user for several months now, and have just recently heard about Suse; from what I've seen so far, I'm definitely considering making the switch (this is actually my first post, and in fact the thread that finalized my registration here instead of the usual lurking.)

As for why I like Ubuntu:

• Easy to set-up and install
• Easy to configure
• Very customizable
• Synaptic/aptitude is easy and efficient
• Packages readily available in a LOT of repositories
• Great community
• Great support from the aforementioned community
• Was really, really easy to switch over from XP. The learning curve wasn't steep at all

I also heard a lot about Ubuntu before I even knew of the existence of Suse. It's just better-marketed, especially to long-time Windows users.

[GofBorg]

> It's just better-marketed, especially to long-time Windows users.

Well, don't look to Novell to fix that. :-)

[InkedParrot]

I tried Ubuntu once. It can be nOOb friendly but I am a big fan of the KDE desktop. I tried the live CD in my laptop but I would not let me connect to the Internet. But the SUSE live will immediately connect to the Internet as soon as I plug it in. I like my openSUSE!

[StevenJ61]

I started with Ubuntu also. I like ubuntu but I'd rather use another distro. My friend is an apt-get junkie and for that he will only use ubuntu. Personally, I find the system to be very ugly and unpleasing to the eye. It is super easy to install but it seems to use more generic drivers than specific. What I mean by that is, install a proprietary driver for lets say an ATI graphics card. It won't install the drivers specifically for your card automatically. It will install generic ati drivers which work okay but there will be a lot of glitching like white lines across the screen and such. Personally, I have more experience with RPM. After I left Ubuntu I went to Mandriva. I even bought the 2008.1 power pack. I loved it for a short time, that was until I twice attempted to upgrade the distro to 2009 and it kept wrecking my system. The second time it worked okay but I could not use a lot of the older 32bit linux games I used before. Also, it had some odd crashes and bugs. Plus they would not let me download the iso for 2009 powerpack because I bought a one time download deal. Well oh well. I have Ubuntu installed on my other desktop. I like it but to me Ubuntu reminds me a lot of older Mac OS. It's very stable sure but very boring at the same time. It does have a good repository but so does Mandriva and openSUSE, OMG! openSUSE when installed with the 32 bit and 64 bit packages has an amazing amount of programs available. I all I need to do is sort out my grapic card problems. When I do, I'll be raiding the repositories!

Originally Posted by InkedParrot

I tried Ubuntu once. It can be nOOb friendly but I am a big fan of the KDE desktop. I tried the live CD in my laptop but I would not let me connect to the Internet. But the SUSE live will immediately connect to the Internet as soon as I plug it in. I like my openSUSE!

There is a version of Ubuntu called Kbuntu with KDE. I haven't tried though.

[knadian]

Personally I am not impressed by Ubuntu. I was trying each and every version since 6.x LTD and every time I was disappointed. Easy to install - yes - but same are openSUSE, Mandriva, SAM, PClinuxOS, Fedora, you name it, almost today's all known distros have a very nice and easy installation interface. I think the difference is made by the distro itself and the user's experience. If we are to talk about usability, easy to install, hardware recognition and very less psot-install task to perform, than I can say PClinuxOS is a winner. If you need a little more advanced OS to play with and also to keep the eye-candy and desktop/laptop functionality I think openSUSE is the BEST choice. Ubuntu failed miserably on all my DELL computers especially on laptops (and I was expecting to have the best support ever - taking in the account that DELL started to ship Ubuntu pre-installed laptops) at dual monitor setup. Ubuntu, in my opinion, is a nice ditribution, and the reason a lot of people are using it is because the forum - a huge amount of technical details - very helpful though...
I am in love with openSUSE and I would like to have the same community or even more powerful than Ubuntu.

[beardo41186]

Well, I first tried Kubuntu edgy, my first foray into linux. Unfortunately, I can't say it worked very well, would constantly crash, and I couldn't get compiz to work properly.

Then I decided to download the iso for openSUSE 10.2, and I was hooked immediately. 10.2 had it's problems, but it never gave me the problems that kubuntu did.

I never liked gnome too much so I haven't dealt with ubuntu.

The only real problem with 10.2 was the package manager, but that has been improved significantly in 11.0, and I think openSUSE 11 looks better, works better, and is easier to learn than ubuntu

[wildnux]

I guess, for the new users, its the response (in forums) that matters. I have not tried ubuntu long enough(had boot it once through live dvd). But I see most problems I come across and "google" it, I come up with pages from ubuntu forums. I was trying to make the "picasa viewer", (not the picasa "photo manager", picasa works great for me) and googled it, I found the problems solved (workaround) in ubuntu forums. The packages were in .deb format and I searched for a while to see if there are any rpms but there were not any .

Any way I have not fixed the problem but one day I will

What I think is, forums for ubuntu is too large and active so even if there are not answers for solving the problem, there are few suggestions/or/similar problems posted in a short amount of time, which makes the newbie feel like home.

But, for me, I am PLEASED with openSuSE. I have been using it from 10.1 to 11.1 and i see it glowing more brightly in every upgrade.