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Originally Posted by kwik
i just switched to ubuntu... its free and VERY quick, i use vista for microsoft programes though....
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I like your style kwik, as someone who uses Ubuntu every day and makes his living from knowing the power of Linux, I can only smile to myself every time I here all the licensing, cost issues and trouble people have with Windows.
cOsie, I'm sure if you're Uni is any good you'll come across Linux very soon. The best lesson I learned at Uni was that Windows is not the only option -after Uni the lesson I learned was that having Linux on your CV can be useful when looking for work, but I suppose it depends on what you want to do when you've finished?
jhammond - I use Matlab on Linux and it works very well.
I'm sure someone will point out that they can't live without software 'x' and because it doesn't run on Ubuntu they have to run Windows. I also have this problem, to solve it I run Windows XP on Ubuntu inside virtualbox and it works great. When Windows crashes or starts going a bit slow I can just boot up an earlier snapshot, prior to the magic bit rot and slow down that seems to effect Windows machines after a couple of months of use.
The only reason I can justify having a dual boot for Windows is so I can play a couple of race sims.