Your opinion on Ubuntu?

I don't have a huge amount of experience with Linux overall. I have used Ubuntu a bit as it was installed in the Linux labs during my first year at university. Subsequent years had Linux Mint, which seemed pretty similar.

I'm thinking of trying out Sabayon with either MATE or Cinnamon as the desktop environment when I get my new desktop computer soon, though I don't really know the wisdom of such a choice beyond the research I've done online.

I dualboot on my laptop(XP and Ubuntu). I used to use only Ubuntu for few months about 2 years ago, but then I went back to Windows for gaming purpose. Nowadays, I don't use my laptop that much(again, because of gaming). Once I saw Steam coming for Linux, I decided to give it a go again. However, for my surprise, newer version of Ubuntu are quite heavy and the performance is worse even than my old XP. I'm thinking of installing a new lighter distro(like Mint) now. I guess Ubuntu is still lighter than Win7 tho.

I started using Linux years ago, with openSUSE and I switched to Ubuntu for a short period of time.

It's easy to use and it does some cool tools if you want to get a little "under the hood" but that's about it. Good for new users with less or no experience at all in computers. However, the only things that make Ubuntu cool are APT/Update Manager/Ubuntu Software Center/Synaptic, the ease of use/access and the cool Ubuntu family font.

It lacks features, advanced tools and, when you expect less, something will crash. To be honest, the last version that worked out of the box for me was 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. With 8.10 everything start acting weird and crashing and fiding a solution was a pain in the #%$#%.

So, my advice to you is to learn as much as possible about Linux from Ubuntu and move one to another distro. openSUSE/RedHat (NOT Fedora)/Slackware. Don't worry about Steam on Linux. They'll most likely add support for other distros.

When I'm able to build a computer, I'm gonna go with Ubuntu, even for gaming. I know that it might be more problematic at the minute, but it's going to be ages before I do get to build a computer :( so who knows.

As someone who programs mostly in fedora, ubuntu is ok, linux as a whole is ok, but honestly, as far as usability goes, it's just not where windows is. Even just browsing, linux isn't as fluid.

I started out with 9.10, and upgraded my way up with custom settings. I feel that there's not enough games on it, else it would be my main OS for gaming.

You can't say that an OS is the best in the world,every OS has his limits and his bugs.I am using Ubuntu for 5 years now and i must say it's the best Linux distro out there at the moment.The only problems i've had over the years with Ubuntu were the drivers,for example i've bought an NVIDIA GTX560 some time ago, and for a week or so there waren't good drivers out there so i had some problems with the graphics,but eventualy it has been sorted out.Yes,it's fast, it's easier than other Linux distros,the security of Ubuntu is waaay above any Windows out there, but sometimes i have to turn back to windows because of some apps that i need to use because i work as a proggramer.For regular people who use it just for apps,games,movies,etc it's a verry fine OS,but for others like me it's a pain in the ass.Unfortunaly Ubuntu (and other Linux OS) are slower in terms of browsing,memory allocation, RAM management and DHC (direct hardware control).As you may have noticed allready,in Ubuntu if you turn the volume up to 100% it's louder than Windows,and that is not a verry good thing,due to the fact that Windows makes some limits to the hardware so you won't get a fault or other things like that.God knows how many times i have to restart the system because the volume card was overbusy or the graphics card,etc etc.
But,as i said,there isn't a perfect OS out there,each one has his upsides and downsides,sooo after all the ultimate decision remains in the hands of the user.If you like Ubuntu more and you get used to it,verry good;if you are a Windows user and you like it and you got used to it,verry good aswell.

Honestly if Linux had the software support Windows does, I'd go with it in a heartbeat. But since it doesn't, I'll be using Windows 7 until the work out enough of the kinks with 8.

Ubuntu is alright, but if you think about it Ubuntu really is the Windows Vista of the Linux world; it works and isn't too much of a pain in the ass, but you'll still get shit for using it. I've really enjoyed using Crunchbang and Arch Linux is always great if you want to get your hands dirty in a Linux environment. Setting up an Arch distro is what helped me learn how to use Linux in the first place years ago. There are thousands of distros to choose from, though and really it's best to pick what suits you. Do you want something with a bunch of stuff already on it? Maybe you want Sabayon. Something slim and fast? Crunchbang, or maybe Puppy Linux, or even try a BSD. Something simple and user-friendly with a large repository? Ubuntu, or even better; Fedora or Debian. Hacker friendly? Try BackTrack 5. Tired of being spied on by your ISP and government? TAILS Linux is great, comes with TOR pre-configured, and doesn't leave much of a trace.

I'm pretty much always on ubuntu(with differents desktop environment) and it's a good experience. If Ubuntu fails to deliver, there's no problems, we have a multitude of distros.
For me, it is faster than Win7 and of course it's easier/enjoyable to use as I customize it like I want ;).

My experience with it was sadly pretty awful, maybe due to the fact that I was using a laptop? I'm not ashamed to say I tried it for the TF2 item, but had a lot of problems with installing stuff and the browser kept crashing. I'm sure I could have made it work, but about 12 hours trying to get other stuff on it work, and I gave up went crying back to Windows XD

I like it a lot but it didn't work with the file system of my DAW so it's a no go for me.

Install MacOS X, MUCH better.(PS I don't have a Mac)

I used to like Ubuntu during the Gnome2 era, now I'm using Mint. I can't stand Gnome3 or Unity.

I'm using ubuntu linux for gaming, it's gettin' better and better by day.

Just don't care. Out of my Steam library, only about 10 games or so are currently available for Linux, and the buzz is they're not running all that well. Since I switch on my PC for two main purposes, those being a) work and b) gaming, I really don't need to go through the pain of dualbooting my system.

What does Ubuntu mean? It's a word from an core-african tribe and it translates literally into "I'm too stupid to set up Debian" xD

Better than Win ofc, but far far away from being "best OS in the world" ;p

My OS - Crunchbang Linux (Debian)

I install Linux on my older pc's and laptop's, while I have Windows on the more modern ones. I have a really slow mini-laptop, that I have never been bothered to use, because it was slow as hell. Installed Lubuntu on that, and now it is fast as lightning.

i'd use ubuntu if it was not for some software not running on it and games not working on it. Ubuntu is significantly faster and better than windows and solves a lot of problems with malware/viruses for people with less brain activity.

Ubuntu is Linux for people that want something to replace Windows, but don't want to put any effort into using a proper Linux distro that doesn't try and do everything for you (at the expense of being bloated, going the route of Windows 8 in terms of forcing annoying user interfaces on you and has everything "preconfigured" in the way that someone else wants it).

Arch Linux user here.

I used Ubuntu and I must say that it's the best alternative option for Windows. Using both is good too.

I have ubuntu in work and windows7/ubuntu at home. When steam supports more games I wont bother with windows at all. Linux is much better. Girlfriend also loves ubuntu.

Don't like it, but i generally think Linux on personal systems is a bad idea for most people, so...

Ubuntu is my first Linux OS. Used it for a while, learned some cool command shit and stuff. Stopped using it because the Officelibre isn't good enough for reading pptx. lecture slides.