The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

Falko Timme provides one of the best articles dealing with switching to Ubuntu that I have ever seen. If I were not already an avide fan of Ubuntu, I would be looking to switch after reading this. Falko provides great screenshots to help you along the way.

With the release of Microsoft’s new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the third in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

You can read the entire article at howtoforge.com.