Please re-read the last paragraph of the original article, where it is stated quite clearly that these are also features of other flavors of Linux.

Ubuntu IS a flavor of Linux, therefore Linux features are Ubuntu features, too. Simple rule of logic. Nowhere here is it stated that Ubuntu is the ONLY Linux in the Universe.

Finally, you complain about the original article talking only about Ubuntu – Hello, what’s the name of this site?……..

I’m a Linux newbie (little over a year) and I love Ubuntu. I’m a computer old timer (started in the “green screen” CRT days), and I’ve used just about every consumer system there is, from CPM to Amiga.

I gave up on Apple when they screwed over Apple II users (“Apple II Forever” – forever being 1 year). They are too closed and controlling, not to mention overpriced. Microsoft is just plain corporate evil – planned obsolescence to drive sales, and bloated with crapware and spyware. Most malware problems on Windows are due to a refusal to fix bad programming and intentional backdoors.

Amiga was way cool, way ahead of its time, and mired in strange legal, ego, and corporate obstacles. To me, Linux, and Ubuntu in particular, is where Amiga should have gone.

Is Ubuntu perfect? Of course not. Does one have to do a little extra to make things work the way you want? Always. But if I have to go that extra mile, I prefer to learn to use an open (and free) system with a gigantic (and mostly friendly) user base, over having to struggle to make a deliberately crippled OS function moderately well, AND have to pay through the nose for the privilege. Too feudal/fascist for my taste!

Ubuntu is the easiest Linux to configure and use, in my experience, and Shuttleworth is a FAR better example of wealth used wisely than Gates. Rejoice in what you have here, Linux folks. This is the future of computer OS systems, and you have one heck of a lot more to say about it than with Windows or Mac OS.

Use that freedom well.

I have been trying to gain IT level proficiency in Linux for years. I subscribe to LinuxPro Magazine, and have installed and evaluated no less than 20 or so distros.

I have settled on Ubuntu. Every time I installed and evaluated another distro, I returned to Ubuntu to actually be able to do the things I need to accomplish. It seems Ubuntu and I have kins of “grown up together.” The beeter I became the better it got.

Ubuntu (and Mepis) just work, period, out of the box (or off the CD-R).

Once you get used to using multiple desktops you sorely miss them when forced back onto XP or 7.

The repositories make it ridiculously easy to try out software, and punt it if you don’t like it. There really is almost no excuse for not finding the right tool for the job.

ssh is something I use regularly at work. At home, I ssh wirelessly from my Asus netbook runnng Linux over to my desktop Ubuntu system and take advantage of its speed and power. Of course, for Ubuntu, speed and power can be found on a 4 year old mid-range Dell. The other day my son ssh’d from his Macbook to my Ubuntu, and ran a windows program in wine that he needed. Now that was fun, in a geeky kind of way.

Antivirus? Linux *is* the antivirus. I really appreciate not having to give up a fair percentage of my memory, disk, and CPU cycles to running antivirus software all the time.

Of course, I would add nfs mounts, rsync, and a couple of bash scripts as the ultimate in easy backup too.

Meanwhile I continue to struggle to find _anything_ compelling about Ubuntu over other Linux distros. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not an Ubuntu hater. I just hear all the incessant Ubuntu love jabber and I look at Ubuntu and all I can think is either there’s some secret handshake I don’t know that lets you see the hidden features of Ubuntu or if everyone is just stupid.

I can’t even find a real administration system in Ubuntu. Gnome? feh. And Kubuntu is a second class citizen as far as development, polish and quality.

Anyway, I just don’t get it.

Meanwhile, the distros I use have all the features listed above. The article is inappropriately focused on Ubuntu.

last mth, i install the latest Mint on Dell dual-core 2Gb ram. It runs like a ferrari.

The staff in the office also started to love linux, because of Mint. Thanks to Stallman/Gnu/Debian/Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint.

Windows 7′s driver support is much better than vista’s or XP. Also, Windows 7 networking is much easier for non-power users than Ubuntu’s is. For example, it seems/appears in Ubuntu that you can only have one network connection at a time active, whereas in Windows it is obvious you have more than on connection.