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Originally Posted by CarpCharacin

I tried ubuntu and it was the POS IMO. I am using windows 8 and i luuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvv it.

Any Linux distro is a learning curve that not many windows users are able to conquer. Its much different so its not a surprise that more people do not use it. For a lot of people using a terminal really freaks them out. I do not know why but it does. There are lots of great online tutorials and stuff to learn how to use the OS but this all depends on what kind of time you have too. Windows is more user friendly for a lot of people but Linux is less likely to have issues with virus' & malware stuff.

Originally Posted by squidsk

It depends on what version he tried. I loved ubunto 10.04. I tried 11 with unity, absolutely hated it and stuck with 10.04 until 12.04 came out. Switched to 12.04 and it was nice but my machine slowed to a crawl, switched to Mint and never looked back.

True there are some versions that just seem to be more buggy than others with Ubuntu. I installed Mint like once but had some issues with it. This was years ago though when it first came out. Might look into it again though. I've also used Fedora, which was not too bad, but I like Ubuntu better though.