Windows 10 vs Ubuntu 18.04

[Pr0fessi0nalN00b]

Hey ya'll. I have a cheap Dell Inspiron laptop with a 1.9gHz i3 and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The hard disk recently gave out, and I was wondering whether I should put Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04 on the disk. What do you guys think?

 

PS: I have a copy of Windows 10 that I bought on hand already in case you were wondering.

[PlayStation 2]

What would you need each OS for? Would you be willing to learn Ubuntu (assuming you don't know it already)?

[Pr0fessi0nalN00b]

I just use this laptop for basic word processing. i consider myself fairly proficient in Ubuntu. The laptop is still in great condition and I was wondering if Ubuntu would make it run faster, because I assumed that my installation of Windows 7 (upgraded to Windows 10) was filled with crapware.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Give Ubuntu a try, see if it has any issues with the hardware.  If it works, by all means stick with it. 

[SyrupSplashin]

I'd go with Ubuntu, spend some time learning how to use something like bspwm and you could get that laptop zippy. 

[Pr0fessi0nalN00b]

Alright, thanks! I've been mulling over this for days but got my answer in minutes. This is great!

[EPENEX]

Definitely ditch Windows on your laptops if you're not going to be doing stuff like gaming and video editing on them. You will have a much more enjoyable experience with something such as Ubuntu.

[Tosa]

Well, I know my shitty laptop from 2011 gets pretty toasty from running Windows 10, with the CPU often reaching 100% load just from stuff the OS is doing in the background. Fedora runs great, though. And I don't imagine Ubuntu being any heavier or slower than Fedora. Not that it was particularily slow running Windows 10, but the fan noise got out of hand, and it got too hot for watching Netflix in the bed.

[flibberdipper]

1 minute ago, EPENEX said:

Definitely ditch Windows on your laptops if you're not going to be doing stuff like gaming and video editing on them. You will have a much more enjoyable experience with something such as Ubuntu.

Unless it's something like my E4310, in which case glhf don't commit soduku

[2FA]

I've got a laptop with a Broadwell Core M 5Y10c in it and it runs great with Linux whereas Windows 10 is so so sometimes, Ubuntu definitely runs well on older/weaker hardware.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

11 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

don't commit soduku

I dare you

 

[geo3]

For word processing stick to Windows. Open/Libra Office are trash and MS Office doesn't have a Linux version.

[AntonChigurh]

1 hour ago, Pr0fessi0nalN00b said:

I just use this laptop for basic word processing. i consider myself fairly proficient in Ubuntu. The laptop is still in great condition and I was wondering if Ubuntu would make it run faster, because I assumed that my installation of Windows 7 (upgraded to Windows 10) was filled with crapware.

If you want word processing go with windows simply for Word. However if you don't wanna spend the money then just get Linux and use Google Docs or something. It'll serve you pretty well, plus cloud storage is a godsend.

[flibberdipper]

12 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

I dare you

 

 

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[GFuelBoi]

18 hours ago, Pr0fessi0nalN00b said:

Hey ya'll. I have a cheap Dell Inspiron laptop with a 1.9gHz i3 and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The hard disk recently gave out, and I was wondering whether I should put Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04 on the disk. What do you guys think?

 

PS: I have a copy of Windows 10 that I bought on hand already in case you were wondering.

Get Windows, any body needing to do word processing should use Word, its one of the best word processing apps out there, maybe go for an old version of windows if have low specs, like 7 or windows 1.01

[Barnack]

this is one of the few instances in which i drop my Microsoft bias and i go suggesting linux, BUT there's a but: get some more lightweight linux distro than ubuntu. If what you mostly do is word processing you have a potential very long battery life, which both windows 10 and ubuntu will negate.

 

Keeping in mind that your main purpose is word processing, if by chosing linux you'd go with ubuntu, then there's no reason to chose linux over windows, where you can run real ms word rather than the open source rip-off.

[LowWonder]

Linux on laptop? No way. 

[AntonChigurh]

1 minute ago, woodencap said:

Linux on laptop? No way. 

suicide linux ftw

[LowWonder]

Just now, HingaDingaDurgen said:

suicide linux ftw

In every 2-3 years i install linux (mostly ubuntu) on my actual laptop but i always put back the windows after hours. The battery life is extremely shit. The touchpad working like some cheap touchpad from 2001. The keyboard backlight never works and the suspend is still unusable. Im curious when will be the "YEAR OF THE LINUX!"

[AntonChigurh]

2 minutes ago, woodencap said:

In every 2-3 years i install linux (mostly ubuntu) on my actual laptop but i always put back the windows after hours. The battery life is extremely shit. The touchpad working like some cheap touchpad from 2001. The keyboard backlight never works and the suspend is still unusable. Im curious when will be the "YEAR OF THE LINUX!"

Thats cos ubuntu is big gay for anything except mid-high range desktops. Get yourself a better distro like Mint or Fedora, or even just stock Debian.

[dionkoffie]

I have linux on my Dell spare laptop (3th gen I5, 6GB ddr3 yada yada). Runs Ubuntu 18.04 just fine. If something isn't your liking you can change it. for example the keyboard backlight is much easier to configure in Ubuntu than on Windows. My laptop is running faster and battery life is much improved.

[Shoe_Eater]

I personally would recommend that you do not go for windows or ubuntu, as in my experience ubuntu has been quite unstable, especially after upgrading it from 17.04 to 18.04, i would recommend you go with some other linux distribution as really almost anyhting debian based should be similar enough to ubuntu that you should have no issues. 

Although atleast ubuntu is more stable than windows 10 for me, bsod's every day OwO

[TJ10]

What about ElementaryOS? It looks good and has earned quite good reviews too. I ran v0.4.1 Loki but they have released V5.0 Juno now, I expect it to be much better,

 

Check it here ElementaryOS

[LowWonder]

On 10/4/2018 at 8:39 AM, EPENEX said:

Definitely ditch Windows on your laptops if you're not going to be doing stuff like gaming and video editing on them. You will have a much more enjoyable experience with something such as Ubuntu.

Except if he want normal battery life or he want to use the touchpad.

[Pasi123]

9 minutes ago, NewDisplayName said:

Except if he want normal battery life or he want to use the touchpad.

I've never had any problems with battery life and touchpad on Linux.