Penguin Zindaabaad - Ubuntu 10.04 review
They : Is this Apple? Me : No. This is Ubuntu ! They : Huh? Me : Yep! The above conversation happened yesterday when I had gone to give a demo to an Association Committee. Half an hour we were discussing on Ubuntu and then I realized I have come here to sell my product and not Ubuntu - and went on with the demo! That's the screenshot of my desktop - on Ubuntu 10.04. Very minimal, OS Xish, smooth, fast, snappy, extremely responsive - and a conversation piece at every demo. In May 2009 - a year back I installed Ubuntu 9.04 with dual boot with Vista ( http://venkat2.blogspot.com/2009/05/finally-switched-from-vista-to-ubuntu-9.html ). Now after a year - in may 2010 - I clean formatted the laptop and have gifted the entire hard drive, boot sector et all to Ubuntu 10.04. I am confident / convinced that Windows is not needed any more. In fact I am very grateful to Microsoft for having produced a crappy OS. If Vista was a little better I would h...