Posted by: jonreagan | March 22, 2008

Back in Ubuntu!

I seem to have a post like this one every time I get tired of switching distributions, especially ones that do not work as planned.

Ubuntu works for me, and it has full support for my laptop in a user-friendly format. Using other distributions, with the exception of a mere few, is almost impossible for me. My laptop uses the Broadcom 4318 54g Air Force One wireless card. Ubuntu provides support for this driver via the “Restricted Manager”. I also have an ATI Radeon XPress graphics card, which can also make KDE act slow.

As of now, I have to say that my favourite distributions are Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. It is surprising to find that I originally did not like PCLOS, but as I became more experienced, I understood it better (a result of coming from Ubuntu), and not to mention, it supported my laptop perfectly with the simple addition of several drivers.

So, for now I am back in my comfortable home system, Ubuntu.

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Those are the two that I recommend to my customers. I started out with PCLOS and then switched to Ubuntu. The primary reason I switched to Ubuntu was because a couple of customers had already called me for support. I have been using it for a while now and it is my distro of choice, too. Although, for most of my customers looking for a familiar alternative to Windows, I still point them to PCLOS. I even use the server edition for a couple of file servers. I like the GUI instead of the command line like Ubuntu server.

By: Jack on March 22, 2008
at 3:20 pm

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