Ubuntu! Anyone used it before or are we mainly with windows?

Was looking at buying a cheap desktop to run with our hd tv in the living Room and came across allot of talk around Ubuntu and linux operation systems! I'm not very hot with this kind of thing so just wondered if any of you lot have used any of the things mentioned or weather I should just stick with my window 7 laptop and its hdmi out?

Stick with Windows 7 unless you are a bit of an sexpert me thinks. You can always dual boot if you want to try both out mind

i dual boot with ubuntu 10.4, ubuntu is a much faster software in my case

to be honest rob buy a windows 7 desktop and check if they have hdmi kit at the back so you can plug it with your tv...what im doing is building my own computer from scratch..im buying the components separatly parts by parts..im going for

Cm Storm Mid Tower Scout Case
Asus motherboard
intel core sandy bridge 3.4ghz including 3.8ghz turbo boost 2600k
8GB memory ram
3 TB Western Digital Hard Drive
1000W Power Supply
Blu-ray Drive
Dvd Drive
HD AverMedia Capture Card
Asus 2GB Radeon HD 6970 PCI-E 2.1 Graphics Card or Crossfire Graphics Car working both ways
Asus Xonar D2X/XDT Sound Card 7.1
3 coolmaster fan

For Video editing, gaming and photo editing purpose

Richking33 wrote:

to be honest rob buy a windows 7 desktop and check if they have hdmi kit at the back so you can plug it with your tv...what im doing is building my own computer from scratch..im buying the components separatly parts by parts..im going for

Cm Storm Mid Tower Scout Case
Asus motherboard
intel core sandy bridge 3.4ghz including 3.8ghz turbo boost 2600k
8GB memory ram
3 TB Western Digital Hard Drive
1000W Power Supply
Blu-ray Drive
Dvd Drive
HD AverMedia Capture Card
Asus 2GB Radeon HD 6970 PCI-E 2.1 Graphics Card or Crossfire Graphics Car working both ways
Asus Xonar D2X/XDT Sound Card 7.1
3 coolmaster fan

For Video editing, gaming and photo editing purpose

how much are each of those parts?

i know seananners is making his own gaming and editing PC and thats coming to $1400 so it is generally cheaper to build your own but that requires a lot of time and know how

karriu wrote:

i know seananners is making his own gaming and editing PC and thats coming to $1400 so it is generally cheaper to build your own but that requires a lot of time and know how

I saw some guy who had his computer custom built and it cost over £2K. it had 5 HDD's totaling something like 3 or 4 Tb's

jcb94 wrote:

karriu wrote:

i know seananners is making his own gaming and editing PC and thats coming to $1400 so it is generally cheaper to build your own but that requires a lot of time and know how

I saw some guy who had his computer custom built and it cost over £2K. it had 5 HDD's totaling something like 3 or 4 Tb's

I'd make my own custom one but i'd end up giving up on it lol

jcb94 wrote:

Richking33 wrote:

to be honest rob buy a windows 7 desktop and check if they have hdmi kit at the back so you can plug it with your tv...what im doing is building my own computer from scratch..im buying the components separatly parts by parts..im going for

Cm Storm Mid Tower Scout Case
Asus motherboard
intel core sandy bridge 3.4ghz including 3.8ghz turbo boost 2600k
8GB memory ram
3 TB Western Digital Hard Drive
1000W Power Supply
Blu-ray Drive
Dvd Drive
HD AverMedia Capture Card
Asus 2GB Radeon HD 6970 PCI-E 2.1 Graphics Card or Crossfire Graphics Car working both ways
Asus Xonar D2X/XDT Sound Card 7.1
3 coolmaster fan

For Video editing, gaming and photo editing purpose

how much are each of those parts?

about 1000 pounds

The problem with computers are that the technology is constantly outdated. Mine is Custom built but I am saviong for a graphics card at the moment

Go with Windows 7 desktop and it is the best OS that I used.