In the last article I have written about my migration to Ubuntu from Windows. Now I have around two weeks of experience of working with Ubuntu so I think I am in a position to tell about my experience with it. My first sentence will be same as earlier – I love it. At the time of installation, I was thinking that I have to revert back to Windows in one or two weeks but now I don’t want to use Windows any more. I am not having any problem of working with Ubuntu in these two weeks. Most of the things I was doing on Windows, I am still doing the same on Ubuntu also. Actually now I have installed Kubuntu-Desktop on it so you can say I am using Kubuntu now. Both Ubuntu and Kubuntu are same except that Ubuntu uses Gnome desktop environment and the Kubuntu uses KDE. Both are good but I like Kubuntu more because it is somewhat similar to Windows in looks so it is easier for me to use in a better way. At present I am using the following software on my (K)Ubuntu.
OpenOffice
(MS Office replacement)
Skype
(Voice and Text Chat same as on Windows)
Kopete
(Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger replacement)
Firefox
(I have not used Internet Explorer on Windows since Firefox 0.9)
Kontact
(On Windows I was using Thunderbird but I like Kontact more)
Amarok
(Windows Media Player / Real Player replacement)
KPDF
(Adobe Acrobat Reader replacement)
GNOchm
(Chm help viewer)
GIMP
(Adobe Photoshop / Paint.NET replacement)
K3b
(CD Burning software)
Ark
(WinZip / 7-zip replacement)
KNotes
(Sticky notes on desktop)
At present I can’t remember any more but it can be seen that I am not facing a single limitation for doing my usual work as I was doing earlier on Windows. But the biggest problem was to use Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server as I am a .NET programmer. I don’t know there is any solution or not but now I don’t want to find any solution for this problem. I have decided to migrate to Java from .NET (Ubuntu is not the only reason for this. I will write in future about this.) and for this purpose I have installed following on my (K)Ubuntu.
Eclipse Netbeans MySQL
I have faced some minor problems but most of them are solved by now. I will write in future articles about them.
P.S. – Ubuntu has already given me one achievement, I have received first comment on my website in any article. And it was my previous article regarding Ubuntu.