Ubuntu Operating System

doom

Hi, was just wondering if anyone has any experience of using Ubuntu as opposed to Windows?

I have a friend that has just gone from Windows to Ubuntu, they are using the internet via a Vodafone Broadband Dongle and they are finding the credit is being eaten much faster since switching to Ubuntu. Before the switchover £15 credit would last for quite some time but now it's all gone in about 2/3 days ??

Anyone have any experience with this or tips on Ubuntu in general?

Thanks

doom :cool:

pcombo

It's nothing to do with the operating system. Maybe tell your friend to buy some sort of package where they get 1Gb of usage or 2Gb.

doom

pcombo wrote: »

It's nothing to do with the operating system. Maybe tell your friend to buy some sort of package where they get 1Gb of usage or 2Gb.

I thought that myself, I couldn't see how the system would make much difference, but it just seems strange that on Windows £15 credit would often last over a week, but since going to Ubuntu the same credit with the same usuage only lasts 2/3 days

But I do agree that it would be financially better NOT to be using a dongle and get a proper connection

Pound

Could it be that automatic updates are turned on on Ubuntu and it's downloading large files in the background. Do they have any other software which is running on their PC which connects to the Internet?

prowla

Yep - my suggestion would be the auto updates, especially soon after installing or using a new release.

23n1th

Whilst it checks for updates automatically I don't think it automatically downloads them unless you set it to. Its not selected by default.

debitcardmayhem

23n1th wrote: »

Whilst it checks for updates automatically I don't think it automatically downloads them unless you set it to. Its not selected by default.

Definitely agree, unless you set it to do so, yes it will check if there are updates (a few kB traffic and only once per day/week/never) and even so I just installed NRM(Meerkat and whatever they now call NRM on that) and it took 113MB to update when I asked it to.

S0litaire

It might be "Ubuntu One" service...
it's a cloud storage service which is installed and runs by default.

What programs does he use?

jbreckmckye

doom wrote: »

Hi, was just wondering if anyone has any experience of using Ubuntu as opposed to Windows?

I have a friend that has just gone from Windows to Ubuntu, they are using the internet via a Vodafone Broadband Dongle and they are finding the credit is being eaten much faster since switching to Ubuntu. Before the switchover £15 credit would last for quite some time but now it's all gone in about 2/3 days ??

Anyone have any experience with this or tips on Ubuntu in general?

Thanks

doom :cool:

Ubuntu is a fairly decent Linux distribution, but Mint is probably a far better choice for the recent Windows convert.

doom

S0litaire wrote: »

It might be "Ubuntu One" service...
it's a cloud storage service which is installed and runs by default.

What programs does he use?

erm ... i'm not really sure what programs are used, the laptop is mainly used to access the internet with IE, if that helps

amcluesent

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 (in VMWare as it happens). It's 1st update of patches was easily 250Mb; you can switch off automatic downloads in Update Manager.