Title: Which computer do you think is the best? Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Dec 14, 2007 Author:moi Post Date:2007-12-14 18:38:55 by WTF? Keywords:None Views:492 Comments:47
Ubuntu is easier to install, comes with Firefox and other necessary utilities and is a free download from their website. Just don't do it dial up because it takes about 24 hours - it still takes an hour at 1.5 MB/S. It comes downloaded with an installer so it is much easier for an inexperienced user to install - unlike Redhat.
They just released Version 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
It is a good stable O/S and comes preloaded with Open Office which gives you all of the basic tools - Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Database, and Presentation Manager. It will read Microsoft word format documents.
The File Manager Utility makes things much easier to manage, and it has an update manager. There are lots of good add-ons which are available for FREE.
If it were not for the lack of availability of Java Runtime, Shockwave, and Flash, it would be hands down the best choice for the least $$$$$.
With all of the talent and genius out there, you'd think those problems would have been solved by now.
That's not the problem. They are all proprietary software that are copyrighted. The copyright holders have thus far chosen not to port it over to Linux. There are some Geek workarounds for some of it but you have to know what you are doing.
most modern distro's use a package manager with a GUI frontend so you can just search through a list what is available in the repositories that that distro uses. installing something that isn't available in the the repo's is really no problem as most any of them have large support forums or sites/wiki's set up with how-to's where it's almost as easy as copy and paste the commands into the terminal as root and you're set, like The Unofficial Fedora FAQ that I use.