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Originally Posted by Bookathon
so what ubuntu can do which windows can not do,
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3D desktop with wobly windows and beautiful spinning desktop cube.
The reason why *I personally* started to use Linux and later FreeBSD was that I was exposed to UNIX systems in a distant past and I loved the elegance of UNIX, the beauty of many small comandline programs that you can combine to achieve the desired result. I loved the idea that you CAN tweak anything to suit your needs. ANYTHING.
*Your* Mileage Might Vary.
Another feature I like very much is that you do not have to search for software, download codecs, shareware and crippled demos from very questionable sites, install separately hundreds of small programs that you need to have in Windows to make it a complete system. After installing a good distribution you have a complete, useable system. There is no need to install separeately an IRC program, messanger, multiple archivers (like zip), codecs, pdf viewers, office suites for light use, programming languages, decent editors, ...
If something is missing you can install it from a verified source by a few clicks or (as I prefer to do) commandline by typing apt-get install krusader or pkg_add -rv krusader.
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Originally Posted by Bookathon
be specific please, do not go into virus and spam thing, give me true and proven advantages which the guy like me will jump on it.
Let me be clear and say I am not against any OS and willing to try it on my cutom made desktop which I am planning to build next week.
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The disk space is dirt cheap today.
You can leave some 50GB of unpartioned space at the end of the disk when you install windows and you can give several different distributions a try. You like it, OK you can dualboot. You do not like the distro? Try another one. *DO* try another one. Look at
http://distrowatch.com/ to see what can you choose from. Each distribution is different and different people will like it. Look for the perfect one until you find it. Just do not give up after 10 minutes of trying out the distribution.
You have nothing to loose. You can format that partition as another windows disk any time you wish.