Gwibber is a serviceable social networking client with Twitter and Facebook support, but it lacks advanced features like multiple columns and frequently even fails to display profile images. Thunderbird handles e-mail with aplomb and is easily a best in-class app, but it's part of a dying breed and has its own visual inconsistencies that clash with Ubuntu's design. The Rhythmbox Music Manager certainly organizes music, but it doesn't look great doing it and is short on features.
The Shotwell photo manager is fine for those who simply want to pull their images off a camera and organize them into galleries, but it can only publish, not sync, photos to online services like Flickr and Picasa.
Only Empathy instant messaging and Transmission BitTorrent don't scream to be replaced. The Ubuntu Software Center thankfully offers plenty of options for upgrading your current selection of apps. Like many of the other programs, the Software Center is a little rough around the edges, but a great feature set more than makes up for its sparse aesthetics.
Perhaps our favorite is the ability to quickly and easily sync apps between computers. Rather than search out all the apps we needed to install to get the Lenovo in shape for daily use at Engadget, we simply logged into our Ubuntu account pulled up the list of apps install on our MacBook. You're even able to quickly filter out the software that exists on both machines, leaving you only with a list of what's missing.
Historically, Ubuntu has always worked well with ThinkPads, and that does not appear to have changed with Precise Pangolin. Out of the box everything worked as it should, with the exception of the fingerprint reader -- a small sacrifice. Things were a little different on the Apple front. Both the multitouch trackpad and WiFi worked from the first boot, which is a change from While this isn't news for the LTE card -- open-source drivers for the technology still aren't mature -- the CDMA dongle has always functioned flawlessly.
Most everything else we threw at the OS iPods, iPhones, Nexus phones, keyboards, external monitors all worked without a hitch. In our limited testing Ubuntu Still, animations seem snappier, Unity responds more swiftly and there where was once lag, now there is none. In fact, we'd go so far as to say that not only is Precise Pangolin the fastest version of Ubuntu, but also snappier than both OS X and Windows.
While making apples-to-apples comparisons of Linux, Windows and OS X is difficult, we can say for certain that benchmarks back up the performance boost in Precise over earlier versions of Ubuntu. In particular, Open GL and 3D performance seems to be greatly improved over Oneiric Oceolot, according to benchmarks performed by Phoronix. The same site also found power draw has decreased since The battery life indicator tells us we should be able to get roughly three hours and 15 minutes on a charge from our three-year-old ThinkPad with the WiFi on and the screen brightness at percent.
Actual tests put that number at just under three hours. After a few days of use we're already inclined to say Ubuntu In particular, it seems that Unity and Compiz the rendering engine used to draw the desktop have taken great strides, as they would sometimes crash on our Apple machine and log us out. In three days of testing we've yet to see that particular bug crop back up. The same is true of a glitch that would occasionally force us to perform a hard reset after putting the machine to sleep.
Have you ever seen those popular apps referred to as "the prorpietary commercial replacement" for the free ones? Let's grow up and define applications for what they do, not for what some think they are trying to catch up to. I share the sentiment! But this also helps put the apps in context for the newcomer.
Not exactly real time: Ubuntu Studio I was using the It was working ok for me: no xruns, but eventually, the updates of the system hogged it all to a slow responsive ubuntu. I was fed up of how slow it became "thanks" to those nasty sob updates! I installed this However, I am now having terrible xruns! But I have NO intention to install updates; not again that mistake!!!
To get rid of xruns, you're going to have to make sure you are running the lowlatency kernel. This is the Ubuntu version that will be supported for five years, through April If you have a business, and you've been thinking about using Ubuntu on your desktops or servers, this is the version you want.
However, before leaping to the Ubuntu site to download the freshest bytes and bits, you may want to wait for a bit. Canonical tells me that the site is currently getting overwhelmed and some people are not being able to get into it. For me, the site and download links worked, but at speeds of about Kbps, they certainly aren't fast. If you really can't stand to wait for a minute, take Jorge Castro, a Canonical staffer's suggestion , and use one of "mirrors hosted on Amazon's S3 service, which has a bunch of capacity and should be fast for users where an Amazon region is close:".
I've been using Ubuntu I've found it to be an excellent, stable, and extremely end-user friendly desktop operating system. Note, I didn't say a really welcoming Linux desktop, I said an end-user friendly desktop operating system. I was able to get my Spanish-speaking mother-in-law on Ubuntu Linux and she was able to just use it without any fuss or muss.
A big reason why was because Ubuntu's Unity desktop is so darn easy to new-comers to you. She literally never had a single question in three weeks of using as her only computer. True, she wasn't asking it to do much-Web browsing, watching video, doing e-mail, writing documents-but is that all most people ask of their computers most days?
A first look at Ubuntu Linux I get that. That said, if you haven't tried Unity for a while, give it a try. Yes, it is different, and yes it is easy--it's hard to feel like a cutting edge operating system guru when you know a semi-computer illiterate year old can work the basics as well as you can--but if you put that "It's different and I don't like it!
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