Has Anyone Tried Ubuntu Operating System?

Taco · Post by **Taco** » October 24th, 2013, 6:24 pm

Has anyone tried Ubuntu operating system before? Is supposed to be an alternative to Windows.

Ubuntu Operating System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)

Ubuntu Download
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

zacb · Post by **zacb** » October 24th, 2013, 6:35 pm

Yes, but my usb wifi receiver was not compatible, and I went back. I am more interested in whonix personally. I also believe I heard somewhere Ubuntu has a backdoor.

Taco · Post by **Taco** » October 24th, 2013, 6:40 pm

zacb wrote: I also believe I heard somewhere Ubuntu has a backdoor.

That would explain why its free.

zacb · Post by **zacb** » October 24th, 2013, 8:22 pm

I forgot what it was, but after a certain version Cannocal installed something that gave it more access to your system. Look it up. It has been a while. I like Debian or Whonix, which is based off Debian (as is Ubuntu). Whonix has double onion routing on every program, plus has a ton of goodies. I personally like that setup.

momopi · Post by **momopi** » October 25th, 2013, 12:15 am

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

There are hundreds of linux distros. What do you want out of it?

If you have an older laptop and just want to boot into linux and use a browser, puppylinux is all you need.

If you have Apple/Mac envy, then you can use pear ("Pear OS 7") or elementary OS Luna.

Want something that looks like Windows 7? There's Zorin OS 7.

Fancy yourself a tinkering gnome? Buy the Raseberry Pi and run Raspbian linux.

Tezcatlipoca · Post by **Tezcatlipoca** » December 5th, 2013, 2:02 am

I would not recommend ubuntu/mint as they are fairly general and boring (if easy to use) distributions. I would recommend going with something more interesting/exotic that caters to your computing style. Also, connectivity issues can be a problem with linux/unix so be prepared to deal with that if using public/school/work internet. Also, I would recommend a dual boot so you have options, but keep in mind linux erases GRUB.