I am a Ubuntu convert. It runs on all 3 of the machines that I want it to run on.
I had problems in the early days, but two tips sorted all of them out:
- Don't use the GUI based installer. Download the "alternate installer" CD image and use the text based but otherwise identical installer.
- Don't try to get nVidia drivers working. Either stick with the default drivers that install with Ubuntu and sacrifice the nVidia "bells and whistles", or bin nVidia and stick with Intel based video so that you can play with the special effects.
That's it. Once I worked those two points out, everything just works.
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