As you’ve seen in this and the previous chapters, Ubuntu isn’t just a powerful workhorse for providing web server and database functionality; it’s also an incredibly flexible and user-friendly desktop operating system that can run the latest office suites, multimedia applications, games programs, and much, much more.
In the next chapter, we’ll look at something else Ubuntu is good at: interfacing with other devices such as cameras, scanners, USB hard drives, and the like.