# Ubuntu: Convince me to switch. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 9, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-convince-me-to-switch/418527 "2007-09-09T04:48:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-convince-me-to-switch/418527/41 "2007-09-13T08:37:34Z")
[QUOTE=treis] To be fair he did, and I mean no offense by this, screw up a pretty easy task. If he had partitioned his HD properly he could have accessed his Vista partition with no configuration. [/QUOTE] I think this is absolutely right. I did screw up something that seems to have been the easiest part of this whole thing. I believe it was because I was in a hurry once I booted off the CD and didn’t pay close enough attention to what I was doing in Vista before I started the whole process. I tried to follow the directions given, and it seems I just missed out on some small detail (or large detail, hell, I don’t know) - but everything turned out fine. The problem hasn’t been with Ubuntu, but with my actions before switching over. To be honest, other than that, I would recommend switching to almost anyone, Ubuntu has been a wonderful OS since I got it running, and the other problem I had (wireless) was something I had read before I even started thinking about actually switching, I just wasn’t sure the best way to handle it. The answer I got on this board was simply perfect and solved my problem very quickly. I think that switching is one of the best moves I’ve made in computing (given I haven’t been switched long) - it was just my execution that was poor. Brendon [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-convince-me-to-switch/418527.md?page=2)