Loving the new Ubuntu!

While I've always flirted with Linux, I've never been able to fully convert. previous attempts ended in failure when I couldnt get my wireless and other essential parts working. Decided to give 7.10 a run after hearing good things.
Installed it on my old Dell laptop. P3 1ghz, 256mb.
Loving it! Wireless and Zune work right away! Best of all, the comp that chugged like an old train on XP is smooth as butter on Linux.
Its actually usable again!

Great job, Ubuntu guys.

 

Why dont you do a review and post some webshots of your Ubuntu desktop? I am soooo curious.

 

I would like to see some screenshots as well

 

do a search, theres tons of screenshots all over the internet

 

man im lovin it to!!! i installed it onto my desktop, dual boot XP pro and Ubuntu, works awsum, also im in 64-bit with the nvidia drivers working perfectly and compiz is awsum.

 

are you running 4gb of ram in 64bit? how is it?

 

I'm currently running Ubuntu x64 with 2GB RAM and it runs as fast if not faster than the 32bit version and dont really see any need for 4GB RAM. Of course there are some drawbacks with flash/java not being natively supported. But 32bit versions of these are available and are relatively pain free to install.

 

I would love to see a hands on review of this from a NBR source. There is a total difference in seeing screen shots on the web and learning about it first hand from one who has just started with it and knows the real world pluses and drawbacks.

 

I'll start on a review today.

 

Screenshots?
That's prehistory!
Have a screencast, instead: http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/

 

Thanks but I was looking more for the new transparency styles that is in Ubuntu 7.10...I've seen a few on Google Images but thought some users might want to post their desktops

 

Gutsy makes flash easy. A quick

Code:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

should sort you out now. It'll automagically install the wrapper for the 32 bit drivers and set you up all ready to go. Worked for me at least.

 

this worked for me really well, but some games are a bit laggy, so i dont bother playing flash games wen im in ubuntu, but flash videos work great.

 

system monitor says im using 388MB of my 2GB, there is really no need for 4GB of RAM using ubuntu, unless you are doing some heavy duty stuff.

right now i have songbird, aMSN (and three chats open), and firefox. I do however have the desktop effects turned off.. (they are screwin around with stuff so i turned em off)

 

Congratulation on ur new Ubuntu device....looking foward to post something bout Ubuntu later...

guys just download and feel the Ubuntu....

 

Besides a speed advantage which is unnoticeable with the vast majority of programs, there are no real benefits to the 64-bit version if you have less than 4 GB RAM.

Almost everything works on the 64-bit version, but some things are more difficult to set up. There is no 64-bit Flash plug-in from Adobe, but you can get the 32-bit version working using nspluginwrapper. There is no 64-bit Java plug-in, so you cannot run Java applets in your 64-bit browser.

32-bit software also works on 64-bit Ubuntu, but may be a bit more difficult to set up.

If you're new to Linux or Ubuntu and you do not have a specific reason to use the 64-bit version, then go with the 32-bit version to save you the trouble.

I have 32-bit Ubuntu 7.10 running on my Dell XPS M1330 and it works really well. Almost all hardware works out of the box; the only thing that doesn't is the webcam (Ubuntu recognises it, but when I try to use it with for example camorama I get an error message that /dev/video0 cannot be opened).