zzack92 wrote:
JeepinJarhead03 wrote:
i actually prefer ubuntu and can run both windows and leopard in it, but i've been on my laptop 90% of the time this year so that's what i screen shot

ubuntu?? how do you use it, do you just download it and instal on either OP?
ubuntu is a free linux operating system, in windows you can use vmware or the sun box software to virtually run a 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc operating system, similarly there's wine emulation and other methods to operate additional operating systems within the native operating system
i'm not a linux fanboy at all, i actually hate most of the linux flavors but linux does multitask better than windows or mac os's, assuming you're able to get proper support for your hardware and what not but the HAL drivers are usually pretty good at supporting processors and mb's that are atleast 6 months old
the biggest thing that drew me in to using ubuntu was the integrated debian software sources that allowed me to use an add/remove function to find and install a S* ton of software and support for some stuff i needed for program development and security research
it's great for standard computer use, expecially for educational use in schools or for kids entertainment, runs exceptionally well on OLD computers, i had a laptop with a 533 celeron and like 96 megs of ram and it ran ubuntu great so i gave it to my friends kid after i got my new laptop 2 years ago
only speed bumps it has, and they aren't as big of a speed bump as it is with other linux flavors like RHEL or Solaris, the learning curve is pretty steep with advanced tasks like emulating secondary operating systems and what not