Hi,
Roger Searle wrote:
Hi Lyndon, welcome to the CLUG list. Which stands for what ever you like.
There are a couple of hundred people subscribed to the list, I believe,
though only 10 or 15 % ever post messages. Plently of people use
k/ubuntu here, and I know there are plenty of others using all the other
distros you mention (some of whom have been doing so for quite some time).
I'm typically something of a lurker myself.
I just put Feisty Fawn on my laptop at the weekend, overwriting the
previous 6.0-something on there. I was very impressed with how easy the
process was - boot to live CD, click install icon, answer 6 easy
questions (well, one required one minute's thought - which partitions to
format) come back after a cup of tea and all done. Another 5 minutes to
add a few packages not part of a default install, and I'm ready to go,
looking forward to playing more with it. Everything "just works".
Today I think I will put it on a work laptop, will be interesting to see
how well it copes with there being a windows install on it and no
partitions available.
My Feisty machine started life as a Breezy install from CD, nice and
clean but from there....Upgraded to a Dapper RC version and used the
"Update-Manager" to do that. Best done from a "Gnome" desktop I might
add. Eventually upgraded to the release version and then to Edgy and now
to Feisty, all done using the "Update-Manager" method. Once (The RC
update) did leave me with many issues to resolve, the rest were pretty
easy with just some minor probs to sort. In short, rather impressive.
I am however going to download a Feisty iso and do a clean install as
the system is certainly due for it.
This experience leads me to suggest that this distro is on the verge of
"ready for the desktop" ie all those windows users out there who
couldn't cope with anything more than what I just did - insert a disk,
answer a few questions (like name, location - NOT the disk partitioning
bit though!) and click the mouse a few times. A few minor
alterations/improvements and almost anyone with half a brain armed with
a disk and a recommendation from one of us is going to be a happy linux
desktop user.
Cheers,
Roger
It really doesn't get much easier, unfortunately, that verge for many
seems hard to get over. I sometimes ponder what would happen in a world
where applications were universal and ran on pretty much any OS, there
are days when I think the likes of VMware or RDP solutions really are
the real future.
Cheers
L
PS: Getting used to the Apple keyboard is a little frustrating. Perhaps
I should invest in a USB keyboard, a non Apple one.
