What is your operating system?

Must admit myself I was a bit surprised that Ubuntu 11.10 was pretty slow when I tried it, 10.04 was a lot faster. Might have another look at Linux Mint, the last time I looked it was almost 2 years ago now (I think Mint 9 Isadora?), so may be worth seeing what changes have been made since.
 
I wasn't just talking about Unity, also gnome 3. I know there is much hate for Ubuntu but there are distro's using gnome 3 that are just as bad i.e. Fedora and LM12 and from my experience Ubuntu handles U/I tweaks better then Fedora and LM12.

I do like LM12 but I recently had a issue where the bottom and top bar disappear. I do love open suse and it is still to date the only OS I have used where my experience with KDE was any good, horrible things happen to my laptop with Kubuntu and I read to many bad things about Fedora KDE to even try.

At the end of th day no matter how much I hate Unity, it is the most reliable and fast OS I have used between opensuse and Fedora. Even when I read about bench marks online when studies have been conducted Ubuntu has taken number one in performance to Fedora and Opensue when it comes to running programs.
 
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I am seeing a lot of Ubuntu users running to Lubuntu, though I did hear a mention or two of migrating to Slackware.

It's been a long time since I played around with Slack... as I recall, there isn't much in the way of graphics on that OS.
 
I might be moving to Xubuntu or Lubuntu whenever I feel the need to switch.

@DMGrier I don't have a lot of experience with the newer distros. I can't get any of them to run with my GPU. I had LM12 booting for and I liked it, although I never really got to dive into it.
 
I have used Lubuntu, I had it running on my net book that had a 1.6 Ghz atom cpu, 2 GB DDR2 memory and 16 GB SSD. It ran great and would boot in 20 seconds or less which on that hardware was awesome.
 
This is the download link for Lubuntu 'https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork/Incoming/Precise/Ozone'. A Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM is the configuration for Lubuntu.
 
acisgeorge said:
This is the download link for Lubuntu 'https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork/Incoming/Precise/Ozone'. A Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM is the configuration for Lubuntu.
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WOW, i just came in my pants, oh wait....

Windows 7.
 
this I know. What I had issues with was stability for a bit. That may have been something I did, but I rather liked the metro setup for a bit, then it got old. I might try it again when I get a DVD to put it on.
 
I notice many of you are using Ubuntu. I'm also an Ubuntu fan. I use dual boot: Windows 7 and ubunu. I tested ubuntu 11.10 and I agree is slower than 10.04, now I am back to 10.04 .
 
ryan.white said:
i will always keep windows xp and never get rid of it

its my favourite operating systems
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Dell Latitude d530
RAM: 4gb
HDD : 64gb SSD
CPU : Intel core 2 duo
display: Intal GMA
OS : dual boot Ubuntu and windows 7
Battery:3.5 hours

Minecraft: ryan_white
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salvage-this said:
I might be moving to Xubuntu or Lubuntu whenever I feel the need to switch.
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So Lubuntu and Xubuntu are nice alternatives to the Linux Ubuntu operating system? I will look at them in the future because I really dislike Ubuntu version 11.10.

I am presently using Windows XP 32-bit and Ubuntu version 10.04 32-bit operating systems.
 
Never have used xubuntu, lubuntu is nice, have not used it since it has become a official flavor of Ubuntu but I am sure it has only got better.
 
I just downloaded Xubuntu 11.04. I played around with it for about an hour. It reminds me a lot of Ubuntu versions 7 and 8. A lot more development has gone into Ubuntu than the Xubuntu operating system. I guess I will stick with Ubuntu 10.04 for a while until I find something else I like.
 
ryan.white said:
as you can see i have changed the hard-drive and i have kept XP on my old HDD
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I can see that you've put away your favorite operating system and are using something else.

Your statements and your signature are clearly at odds with each other.


On-topic, I may be looking at something other than Ubuntu myself-- depending on how 12.04 works with my laptop, I might switch to a different flavor.
 
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