Why Ubuntu and Linux in general is great!

 My brain just committed something called thinking, which resulted in an idea. That idea is that I should make a video about how Ubuntu and Linux in general is great for older hardware, especially on laptops, since they are the dominant in my opinion.

The Fujitsu laptop as I currently writhing this post.

Now just for a little bit of context on how I came to this conclusion, I've recently found an old Fujitsu laptop from 2012 - 2013 just laying by the recycle bin when I came from school. Of course I was tempted by it, so I checked it for any serious damage and took it home. Once I got home, I power it on, and I saw that it had Windows 10 on it. Now because when I've found it was 14th of October, I thought that it would be funny to install Windows 7 on it. So, that's what I did!

After the installation was completed, I found out that some software I wanted to use did not support Windows 7 anymore (that wasn't surprising). So, I thought about another operating system that would work great on here. And there it came to me, Ubuntu! Ubuntu was the default operating system that came pre-installed on my main laptop, but because I use mainly Windows only software, I've installed Windows on it. And because I want this Fujitsu to be more like a just in case backup, Ubuntu was a no brainer.

The "number pad".

I originally intended to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, but because of the limited hard drive space that it has (it only has a 128 GB SSD), I opted to have installed Ubuntu only. For some reason, Ubuntu installed with a UEFI loader, but this laptop doesn't even have a UEFI BIOS. Putting this oddity aside it runs pretty well! And under Ubuntu, I've managed to get the battery to last 6 hours. 6 HOURS!

Now I'm writing this blog post on the Fujitsu laptop, I can't tell if the writing experience is bad or not. But one downside that this laptop has, is that it doesn't have a proper number pad. I love having a number pad on a laptop and on a physical keyboard in general. Now this Fujitsu laptop has a "number pad" but it's more like a function key. You have to press a key (like you would do to activate caps lock), and then simultaneously while pressing the function key press the letters U, I, O, J, K, L, and M. Which are part of the "number pad".

The ON or OFF Wi-Fi switch.

The overall experience with this thing is that I love the long battery life and having a slider in the front to turn ON or OFF the Wi-Fi. Now I like Ubuntu as well, but I think it's too overrated to say it. Every Linux distribution is great in its own way!

As for the video I was talking at the beginning, I'm planning to release it by the next weekend. But if I delay it, I apologize in advance.