Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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I'm a relative Linux newbie, and I've played with SuSE, Fedora Core 3, and Ubuntu.
I like Ubuntu better. It's simply a more responsive desktop system. I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't have any trouble getting my dvds, cds, mp3s, divx, xvid, and whatever other format under the sun working. Nautilus has a command line argument "--browser" and an option in preferences to make it work just like Windows Explorer or Konquerer.
Sure, you can compare the software to SuSE if you want, but the SuSE distribution is either 5 cds or a DVD, and FC3 is also a multi-cd distribution. Ubuntu gives you what you need to have a functioning desktop workstation OS. It's designed with apt in mind so that you don't have to download 3 gigs of information just to get the 600 megs you need.
My only real complaints about Ubuntu are the partition manager upon installation and the wierd version numbers given to some of the packages at the repositories.