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Regarding Windows 7 - Ubuntu is working so fantastically for me, I'm in the process of cancelling my pre-order, I really don't need Windows 7.

That's the thing here, I'm not doing it because of some quasi-religious-techno protest, I just don't need it, and Ubuntu has better functionality for me.

I'd definitely do this - the latest version of Ubuntu looks amazing - but I can't be bothered to put the work into making everything work the way I want it to in Ubuntu. That's why I need to give you the extra kudos for bothering to

I for one will not be buying windows 7, mainly because of the price i dont want to pay £70 for a slightly improved version of vista.


I have my system dual booted with vista and Ubuntu. So i only need Vista when im running games so im not caring about the new task bar and what not. Ubuntu is great for me apart it wont run my games

Luckily I get Windows 7 from my msdn subscription otherwise I would have definitely bought it

Well thanks, but I wonder if you think it's harder than it really is.

I'm not talking about how to make one's hardware to work in Linux, like with ndiswrapper, etc, because I wouldn't get into all that either. I'll be choosing my next laptop based on how well it works with Ubuntu.

So that stuff aside, all I've done to make it work the way I want it to install my applications, and have set up some short cut icons. No harder than Windows. The only "techy" thing I have going in Linux is having written a few scheduled taks ("cron jobs" ) for grabbing backups of things I have on-line (like my website and calendar).

So for anyone who hasn't gone in for Windows 7 yet - there are alternatives.

David, I've been thinking about putting Ubuntu back on my machine.

It's just that this is my own personal laptop and I really need it for university work. I could always dual-boot but after a while it just annoys me, I don't know why, but I'd rather just have one OS on my machine.

That's why I keep thinking about getting something like a netbook and installing Ubuntu on that, although I'd rather not have a netbook. Ah well, I'll give 9.04 a spin when it's released

weetanhops says:
David, I've been thinking about putting Ubuntu back on my machine.

It's just that this is my own personal laptop and I really need it for university work. I could always dual-boot but after a while it just annoys me, I don't know why, but I'd rather just have one OS on my machine.

That's why I keep thinking about getting something like a netbook and installing Ubuntu on that, although I'd rather not have a netbook. Ah well, I'll give 9.04 a spin when it's released

I agree with you on the dual boot issue, that gets on my nerves too. Best to think of it as a transitional stage. What I did, was try the Wubi install method. Where you don't partition, but instead a large file, which is mounted as a drive, is created on your drive. That way you don't have to disrupt your system by repartitioning, which is something else I couldn't be doing with either.