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How to give your creaky old Windows computer an Ubuntu makeover. - By Farhad Manjoo. Almost two years ago, I reviewed Ubuntu, the user-friendly version of the free Linux operating system. I wasn't impressed. I found the software a pain to install, a pain to work with, and—even if it cost me nothing—far less worthy of my time than other major OSes. "Nothing about Ubuntu is an advantage over anything in either Mac or Windows—it has no more features, no better stability, no greater speed," I wrote. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough.
Follow Still, I thought that Mark Shuttleworth, the software entrepreneur who founded the Ubuntu project, was onto a good thing. Well, I think they've done it. So Ubuntu is good. To me, it's the perfect way to give an aging Windows PC new life. If your machine is really old, though, reinstalling its original OS could be a step backward. Yes, I could have hunted down the Dell's original XP disks and reinstalled it to its factory settings. Your Office Chair Is Killing You.
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