Ubuntu 10.10

[trekiej]

I have been using 10.10 for a little while. I like it. I seems to be pretty smooth. I have an A.M.D. 4 core c.p.u. and 4 Gigs of ram. Unfortunately I have built in H.D. 4290 graphics.
I sort of ditched Vista 32 for a while. I think my p.s. is going bad. I disconnected my internal drives for a while. I ran off of Puppy Linux for a while. The video and mouse would go off for no reason.
I hooked my internal 160 gb drive back up and am still using Ubuntu.

[magnetic]

yea ubuntu blows vista away... i have xp pro, vista ultimate,and ubunto on my piv box and always use ubuntu unless i need some special windows crap

[trekiej]

I have a logic analyzer that needs win. If it was not for it, I would not need it.
What I do have a problem with is, I have trouble finding apps on Linux and at times installing apps.
Linux is rock solid.

[Daedalus]

Yeah, I us Ubuntu 10.10 a good bit myself too. However, there are some things which are either possible only on Windows (e.g. running certain software), or things that are possible under Linux but aren't worth all the extra hassle (e.g. colour profiling and matching of printers, scanners and monitors). So Windows is staying in my life for the foreseeable future as a tool...

[Karlos]

I have a logic analyzer that needs win. If it was not for it, I would not need it.
What I do have a problem with is, I have trouble finding apps on Linux and at times installing apps.

If you don't like the shell and you don't like the "ubuntu software centre" thing (can't say I am overly fussed with it myself), there's always synaptic as a GUI alternative to apt.

Regarding your Windows apps, have you checked to see if your logic analyser's installer package can be invoked under Wine? I've successfully installed a few Win32 applications in Ubuntu (64-bit). I've even had some applications just run (albeit with default settings) without installing, when I mounted my Windows partitions and had a mess about. You might be surprised, Wine is getting pretty good these days (see: http://extropia.co.uk/img/penguin.jpg - "debris" is one of Farbrausch's tiny Windows demos).

Of course, the nuclear option, particularly if you have a multiple-core machine is just to run a cut down Windows install in a virtual machine hosted on Linux if you really need to.

[magnetic]

trekiej

Have you tried running the analyzer in Linux with WINE? Google sketch up works nicely with wine

[trekiej]

It does say some have used it with the Mac with VMware Fusion. I assume with windows.
I have not tried with Wine yet.
How well does Windows work on top of Linux?
I have an MSO-19 from Link Instruments.

[trekiej]

I ran Blender 2.56 Beta and it runs. I did not put it through its paces yet.
I would like to do these things.
1. Video Switching
2. Chroma Keying
3. Character Generation
4. Animation
5. Image Manipulation.
This is would be like a Toaster Package but for Ubuntu.

[trekiej]

I may look into making a pci and/or pci-e proto-board to do some research.

[cecilia]

OpenShot works with Blender
http://www.openshotvideo.com/

personally I have only used OpenShot on my Ubuntu 10.04, but eventually will get Blender and try out some new features. It has great potential so far......

forums
http://openshotusers.com/forum/index.php

[runequester]

I have a logic analyzer that needs win. If it was not for it, I would not need it.
What I do have a problem with is, I have trouble finding apps on Linux and at times installing apps.
Linux is rock solid.

Id say stick with apt / synaptic / software center until you get a good handle on things.
I've installed a fair share of random distribution neutral stuff (mostly games) and can't say Ive had too much trouble. Most things just seem to work.
 
Let us know if there's specific things you have trouble with

[Karlos]

personally I have only used OpenShot on my Ubuntu 10.04, but eventually will get Blender and try out some new features. It has great potential so far.....

Let me guess, you were using 8.04 before? Or is it just me that uses the LTS releases for the long haul?

[Iggy]

Personally, I've been running Ubuntu alongside MorphOS on a PPC Mac for some time now. Works great. More than fast enough and better looking than OSX.

[gazgod]

Let me guess, you were using 8.04 before? Or is it just me that uses the LTS releases for the long haul?

/me raises hand

My main workstation stays on the LTS releases.

[stefcep2]

Linux is fine for bread an butter ie web/comms/ and office for an average user.

If you dabble in 2D photo manipulation, 3D, video editing, well, on Linux that can be a painful experience.  And games..

If what you want is Ubuntu's software centre, installation is fine.  If not, its a pain.  Eg I muck about with emulation SNES, N64.  Even Instaling the latest versions that aren't in the Ubuntu software centre is a pain in the  arse, compared with the Win versions.

Stability wise, XP Pro rarely crashed, Vista hasn't-at all- and neither has my Win 7 laptop.  It hasn't been my experience that Win is any less stable than Ubuntu.

As for security, I'm not convinced that Ubuntu is any more secure per se, just that less time and man hours is devoted to exploiting its holes.  And there must be holes, else why are the security updates being released periodically for it?

I don't particularly like the Ubuntu (Gnome and KDE 4) look and feel either, and I don't think its as fast and efficient as its claimed.  I think its the Windows of the Linux world; people use it because other people use it.  

And i hate the "re-install after 18 months" release cycle, or go to LTS and possibly end up with a POS like 10.04 where i couldn't even get a mobile modem to work, even though it was fine in 9.04.

IMO MAndriva was the most polished Linux out there.