by cudzich09 on August 10th, 2008

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Should I learn how to use ubuntu linux? Is it worth it?

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by Bill on August 21st, 2008
Red Hat is worth learning for an enterprise environment and home use. Ubuntu, you can play with but after the thrill is gone Linux is Linux.

Don't get mis-guided and fall in love with an off-brand pick something that isn't used in the work place. Red Hat is and it's free. You may have to look a little deeper to find it, but it's free and installs just as quickly a Ubuntu. Fedora is Red Hat, but without the support and it's absolutely free as well.

People get so emotional when it comes to this but I believe in working with something that has the "possibility" of making you money. Go to DICE or MONSTER and see if you can find a UBUNTU admin job.

Also, you can run most of your window sprogran using wine or some other sim with a little teaking or run VMware in Linux and install windows. There is NO LIMIT to what you can do.
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- There is no limit to what you can do, given you have an infinite amount of time to devote to it. Some things are just crazy hard to do in Linux, but easy in Windows, and you can spend months trying to find fixes to work around problems where under Windows you would have just given up and found other software because you have little choice.
  
  On Linux, almost all of the code is free and it's tempting to dig into it to find and fix problems you run into. But on the other hand, this can take an incredible amount of time, searching in google, wading through forums, reading the same crappy posts that are duplicated on 20 places across the net. It can be frustrating.
  
  That said, for all its warts, it does work remarkably well, and does improve over time.
  
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  by yeroco on August 21st, 2008
- Bill, you make a great point about Ubuntu vs. RH / Fedora. I've grown increasingly frustrated with Ubuntu over the last couple of years, as things keep getting changed and (IMO) screwed up in the name of "user friendliness". I'm strongly considering a change to Fedora or Mepis, or possibly back to ordinary Debian. I'll stick with Ubuntu as long as this old box lasts though.
  
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by yeroco on August 11th, 2008
I'd say it depends on why you want to learn.

Ubuntu is great, but you'll have trouble running Windows apps on it, if at some point you want to.

I highly recommend installing it on your machine as dual-bootable, so that you still have Windows if you want it. The Ubuntu installation CD will walk you through it.. it's really easy these days.
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- If your machine is fast enough, you can run Windows as a "virtual machine" from within Ubuntu (or other Linux distro) without needing to reboot. I have not tried it on my sick old 1.2GHz Athlon (I don't have a Windows cd) but it ought to work on anything faster.
  Also, you can run a lot of Windows apps using WINE, but probably not the ones you want to :^P
  
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  by douchebarge on February 10th, 2009
- My 3.4 GHz P4 seems to virtualize just fine :)
  
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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on February 11th, 2009
- Yeah, yeah. Rub it in why don'tcha!
  
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by Suby the Coat on January 27th, 2009
I am 56 years old and in my very first encounter with computer itself my son advised me to go for Ubuntu software.
Actually he installed it for me.
I have been suning it eversince and find it totally user friendly.
Actually there is nothing to learn, just follow the instructions that keep flashing on the screen till you are totally comfortable with it.
I do not know how to operate any other operating system.
I think you must give it a try.
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by saywhat.Tobias on January 27th, 2009
I use Ubuntu my self and i find that it is very satisfying to use.

When i started to use Ubuntu i was like Freedom!!!

This site explain where Linux is better and why.
http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/
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by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on August 11th, 2008
Yes!!!
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by Takei-Shihan on August 10th, 2008
Yes & Yes ...
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by The Galaxy Hitchhiker on December 9th, 2009
When I ran Windows on my computer it either froze or crashed on a regular basis. Since I installed Linux I haven't had one episode of a crash or freeze.

My computer boots in 30 seconds or so and shuts down in 5 seconds. I timed them both :) Linux is far superior in the security department as well. So yes, in my estimation it is worth it.
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by HeavySkinz on December 9th, 2009
It's worth it if you don't buy CPU games off the shelf, if you enjoy figuring out how your computer operates, and if you hate it when windows crashes and/or gets bogged down.

It's not worth it if you plan on installing it yourself with little to no unix/linux knowledge.
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by Cipher on August 10th, 2008
it's worth it if you don't want to invest in similar programs from Microsoft/Apple and would rather have the same or similar function at no cost to you.
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by Cat on December 9th, 2009
If you want to learn how Linux works and want to use it for your own purposes, Ubuntu is a great choice. It is easy to install, has a terrific selection of software, and tracks the most recent updates to the Linux kernel and the various elements that make Linux into a full OS very well.

If your object is to work with Linux professionally, then one of the RPM-based distributions is probably better for you - these are presently in wider use in commercial apps. Most of what you learn between Ubuntu or another Debian-based distro will be the same, but there is enough difference in how updates are applied and managed to be quite noticable. Fedora is Red Hat's free distribution, and SuSE has a free non-enterprise distribution as well. These are a better choice if your object is to become a Linux admin or programmer, but Ubuntu is friendlier.
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