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After ages I decided to give Ubuntu another try. Now Note that I left Ubuntu when it was 7:10 I think. So I didn't know what to expect with it when I gave it an install. SO I first went and downloaded the image from here.
*www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
I have an AMD system so I went for the AMD 64 bit distribution . However you can stick with the 32 bit distribution and barely notice the difference in my honest opinion. Further I must add I downloaded the alternate install as from my experience I have always had disasters occur with me on the other installation techniques.
The installation was pleasant and I love the feature where you can check the install media for defects . So I ran a check for giggles and then installed the Distro . Total time with an alternate install was about 30-40 minutes . Anyway after the install I booted up and was quite happy that it easily detected my Windows Install . However I do find Grub being painfully slow to what I experienced in Arch. However the graphics are quite pleasant and has all the applications you could need for a simple install. Although I was kind of scared of what Pulseaudio would do to my install I found that it worked flawlessly.
Now I was expecting a hefty memory usage foot print but to my surprise with all my applications open my system was only using 350 MB and note this is with Firefox with 4 tabs open and Xchat running. The sudden spike you see is probably from opening System Monitor and taking a screenshot also.
Anyway from what I was using previously I definitely think system is much more fast and responsive of course it could be the system which I'm running it on.
My configuration on the machine is.
AMD Phenom X2 550
2 GB RAM
1 IDE , 1 SATA Drive
Even with that said I think it should be easily usable on other machines with much lesser resources and if you resort to stripping it down or using another environment like Fluxbox should be just as fast.
Ubuntu is absolutely on the right path and is improving a ton
which is a good thing! Kudos to the community. Hopefully the experience with my install will stay the same way which I'm pretty sure it will. PS. I don't see any possible way to make the distribution to be any "easier" to use. If you aren;t a gamer well then I see no reason why you shouldn't give it a try.
*www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
I have an AMD system so I went for the AMD 64 bit distribution . However you can stick with the 32 bit distribution and barely notice the difference in my honest opinion. Further I must add I downloaded the alternate install as from my experience I have always had disasters occur with me on the other installation techniques.
The installation was pleasant and I love the feature where you can check the install media for defects . So I ran a check for giggles and then installed the Distro . Total time with an alternate install was about 30-40 minutes . Anyway after the install I booted up and was quite happy that it easily detected my Windows Install . However I do find Grub being painfully slow to what I experienced in Arch. However the graphics are quite pleasant and has all the applications you could need for a simple install. Although I was kind of scared of what Pulseaudio would do to my install I found that it worked flawlessly.
Now I was expecting a hefty memory usage foot print but to my surprise with all my applications open my system was only using 350 MB and note this is with Firefox with 4 tabs open and Xchat running. The sudden spike you see is probably from opening System Monitor and taking a screenshot also.
*img138.imageshack.us/img138/6240/screenshotsystemmonitor.png
Anyway from what I was using previously I definitely think system is much more fast and responsive of course it could be the system which I'm running it on.
My configuration on the machine is.
AMD Phenom X2 550
2 GB RAM
1 IDE , 1 SATA Drive
Even with that said I think it should be easily usable on other machines with much lesser resources and if you resort to stripping it down or using another environment like Fluxbox should be just as fast.
Ubuntu is absolutely on the right path and is improving a ton
which is a good thing! Kudos to the community. Hopefully the experience with my install will stay the same way which I'm pretty sure it will. PS. I don't see any possible way to make the distribution to be any "easier" to use. If you aren;t a gamer well then I see no reason why you shouldn't give it a try.
