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4.5 stars
"Ubuntu Rocks!"
Pros: Open Office & Evolution are both easy to use and learn.Firefox & Gaim for instant messeging are iceing on the cake.
Cons: Multimedia works, but has a ways to go to equal Windows and Mac.DVD burning might not work with some brands of blank discs.
Summary: As a Linux user for 4 years now, I'm very familiar with the good and bad. There is much more good now than 4 years ago, but the bad still lingers. Video editing for anything more than the basic, is slightly better than a joke. Kino is the best editing solution for Linux, but compared to anything in the Windows or Mac world, it's primative.Other solutions that claim to do pro editing, like Cinelerra and Jahshaka are very user un-friendly and rarely work as advertised. Rhythmbox is however, a very good-user-friendly application for managing music. No songs are for sale like I-Tunes, but everything else about it is nearly as good as I-Tunes, including downloading podcasts.One final note, you don't need to do all the 3 party application nonsense for partitioning the hard drive prior to installing Ubuntu, as your review claimed. Who the hell told you to do that!It is a good idea to do a disk defragement on Windows prior to installing Ubuntu, but that's it. All you have to do is boot into Ubuntu on a CD from a Windows restart and click on the "install" icon in the upper left corner of the screen. Ubuntu's CD is pre-loaded with a very easy to use automatic partitioning tool called G-Parted. If you choose to use it for manual partitioning, you can do that too.So skip the Norton partition Magic and skip the Wubi, it's not necessary.
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there is a solution to low compatibility; it's called wine and it's as free as linux.
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have nothing to do with Ubuntu.
