I do. That was typed from my Ubuntu HTPC

It is perfectly open, you are free to create your own sub-reddit and manage it however you please.

Open doesn't mean that every part of the site needs to cater to you, the point is people have the opportunity to do what they want, it doesn't mean there are no consequences.

The core of Linux is open source, you can do just about anything you want on your fork of Linux but it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want in the Ubuntu fork of Linux, that one is heavily moderated and that's their chosen path.

People know exactly what Reddit is, we simply didn't get butthurt over some likely trivial matter to set us on a crusade against it. If you want to not sound petty, feel free to share with us what you were trying to post and where you trying to post it. Then we can form an opinion of our own, as right now, we're just taking your bias word that you were wronged.

Both are proprietary to a degree that makes my sphincter cringe. Toss 'em in the river, I say. Maybe the Ubuntu Phone OS will be less awful.

Oh, and *ban

Has anyone tried the workaround? Works for me on Ubuntu 10.4 and Vista.

Well maybe I need a few drinks to really respond to your argument properly, but I'll do my best while sober

I think it's a bug and a coincidence. I was really talking about phones and other embedded devices rather than laptops, but you have a point that it's kinda similar here.

Here's the thing though: Win8 is so different to win7 and vista that Microsoft would be taking a huge risk if they tried to make people switch to it before they got used to the change. Given that people will have to re-learn a whole lot of stuff (or install classic shell) anyway, what's to stop them looking around and buying a macbook air, or installing Ubuntu on their old laptop?

Look, I readily concede that your way is possible, but it just doesn't seem terribly likely to sober me (drunk me could have a different opinion, but I wouldn't listen to him if I were you).
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Hang on a sec - what your saying is old unsupported devices - such as a 4 year old Windows Vista 7 laptop have a best version. So why, JUST NOW, right when win8 is around the corner are the automatic updates which are enabled on every new PC restricting my dad's functionality?

This isn't a case of his installed the latest win8 beta (he has not surprisingly as he was in IT for 30 years - but it's in a separate boot partition and runs all of his usb functions perfectly). This is an update to vista 32 bit drivers which has lessoned his functionally roughly a month before win8 comes out.

Could be a bug, could be a coincidence. Could be microsoft are shaking the tree just enough to make people question if they need the new OS.

Lets take a couple more points of view - you've probably seen the start trek TNG vs special edition videos where the original footage looked WAY worse than what was aired originally. If not maybe your a gamer? Notice how blizzard are preparing "Titan" for launch (new mmo) whilst at the same time releasing a kung-fu panda expansion for wow whilst addressing none of the failings Guild Wars 2 has highlighted.

It pays for companies to make their old products look obsolete whilst retaining their brand loyalty

Sorry for rant - had a few to drink.

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If your goal is to learn Linux skills that will be valuable in the workforce, then I would select CentOS. A lot of companies use Red Hat for the support they offer and as CentOS is just a rebuild of Red Hat, you will be learning the exact distro that you will probably be using/supporting.

Ubuntu has a large user community and the desktop version has come a long way since it was introduced. There are several versions of Ubuntu that are customized for very specific needs and updates seem to be coming on a regular basis now.

This is a website that explains the ever so subtle differences in the Linux distibutions.

http://distrowatch.com/

I don't know what kind of computer you will be installing Linux on but I have come to love VirtualBox. Installing Linux in a virtual environment is awesome if you are like me and want to try out several versions but don't want to dedicate a full computer to the task.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I also am still learning so let me know if you have any questions and I will try to help.

Good Luck!

You mention a job interview so, assuming you're talking an IT job, I'd recommend acquainting yourself with one each of the main parent distros.

Ubuntu is as good as anything for basic familiarity with Debian.

Rather than blow the cash on Red Hat, download CentOS which is built from RHEL repositories.

For familiarity with traditional Unixes, try a copy of FreeBSD.

I gotta say, I like the new Ubuntu Unity desktop in 11.04, but it's true that theres some room for improvements.

I agree with @Croccydile, you may want to avoid the latest version of Ubuntu, it uses a lot of new systems and is known to be pretty buggy. I'm currently using 10.10 for full-time production use.

You may also want to have a look at Mint -- it's based on Ubuntu but has some nice refinements.

Confused. Why are you going to buy linux?

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

Hey thanks very much for the replies! I saw Ubuntu on Amazon for about $20 so I think I will go for that.

Its funny, I was assuming I would go ahead and order Red Hat Professional 8.0 (because it was the most expensive), until I noticed a user review that advised that the version shown was nearly ten years old and was no longer supported, it was also selling for $99.99...

So I will take on Ubuntu and tinkering with that will have to count as my summer holidays!

With Ubuntu in mind, you may want to take a look at the 10.04 LTS version before the latest one as well.

Ubuntu can be run as a live CD and installation these days is really simple. If the last time you looked at Linux was 6 years ago you will likely be surprised at how easy it is now.

Plain Ubuntu still works best if one wants to get (re-)accustomed to it.