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Cheese · 11-26-2012, 10:57 AM

so I had a laptop kicking around that needed a clean up and after I formatted the HD I thought...lets try Ubuntu, Ive heard nothing but positive remarks about it.
I have 3 or 4 latops with Win7 kicking around anyways so no big deal.

Lets just say Im truly surprised. Its a rocketship when starting and shutting down...no more than 5-10 secs each way.
Interfaces are easy to grasp and outside of the fact it doesn't run MS Office I quite like what I'm seeing.

So my question to those in the know is, what are the must haves for Ubuntu users? Are there workarounds to get MS Office running?
Any thoughts are appreciated.

11-26-2012, 10:57 AM	#1
Cheese Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Exp:	Ubuntu so I had a laptop kicking around that needed a clean up and after I formatted the HD I thought...lets try Ubuntu, Ive heard nothing but positive remarks about it. I have 3 or 4 latops with Win7 kicking around anyways so no big deal. Lets just say Im truly surprised. Its a rocketship when starting and shutting down...no more than 5-10 secs each way. Interfaces are easy to grasp and outside of the fact it doesn't run MS Office I quite like what I'm seeing. So my question to those in the know is, what are the must haves for Ubuntu users? Are there workarounds to get MS Office running? Any thoughts are appreciated.