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Jumping To Ubuntu At Work For Non-Linux Geeks
twigles writes "I'm a network engineer, meaning I spend my days dealing with things like selective route advertisements, peering, and traffic engineering; I'm not a Linux admin or developer. About 6 months ago I finally got fed up enough with my experience on Windows XP to jump ship to Ubuntu 8.04, despite not having much Linux experience, particularly on the desktop. Read my ramblings for an engineer's take on taking what can be a pretty intimidating plunge for us Linux noobcakes."
My Windows box only takes 15 minutes, with all the crap that runs at startup! Still, a PC with an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 may boot faster than most.
Here we go again with another example of the word "Ubuntu" being used in the title instead of "Linux", which would be more appropriate. In general, the subject of the article (more of a blog) is about using Linux instead of MS-Windows. It is not specifically about using Ubuntu.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=344745&cid=21176921
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1095787&cid=26502007
If MS-Windows were (generically) a car, and Linux were a motorcycle, it would be like titling an article "Jumping from driving a car to a Kawasaki". This trend can be extremely annoying to fellow Linux users that don't use Ubuntu, and somewhat of an insult to the thousands of people who contribute time and money to non-Ubuntu distros and even Linux and Linux-related FOSS projects in general. There is nothing wrong with using, liking, or even promoting Ubuntu; but give credit where credit is due. Distros are all about 99% the same, the real difference that matters is MS-Windows vs. Linux vs. MacOS....