Thanks Barry, I hope that John will remain to stay a happy user or perhaps even an active contributor.
Excellent work! 2011/5/21 Barry Drake <[email protected]>: > I'm going to have to give apologies for tonight's meeting. Sorry about > that. Not a lot to report except the following I received from someone > I got up and running with 10.10. > > Begin quote: > "I have been a Ubuntu 10.10 user for the past 3 months and have been > asked to pass on a few words on my initial reactions to working with > this operating system. > > Until earlier this year I had not heard of Ubuntu and I was also a > total Linux virgin. I had worked in a design studio for many years > and had always used Apple Mac's, although I had also used, fairly > extensively, PC's with Windows. For preference Mac systems have > always been favourite. So it was a very pleasant surprise to find > that when I had an initial look at the Ubuntu home page it gave an > immediate feeling of working in the Mac environment. It was very user > friendly and providing you have had previous experience using either > a Mac or PC you would have no problem in negotiating the various > applications in the drop down menus they are very intuitive. Open > Office Word Processor I found to be the equal of Microsoft Word, > although having said that, I never have been able to utilise the full > facilities of Word and neither have I at the time of writing gone too > deeply into Open Office, but the basic word processing side is very > simple. Other great software that came with 10.10: Disc Burner, Movie > Player, Video Editor, Sound Recorder, Spreadsheet, Presentation, > Photo Manager, Scanner, Drawing/Graphics programme, plus usual games > and other bits and pieces. All have been easy to use and certainly > equal to their Microsoft counterparts. > > Initial set-up of Ubuntu I found difficult as I tried to load the > system onto an external hard drive whilst still keeping Windows as > the main operating system on the internal hard drive. It didn't seem > to like being a sub-system and left me with the error message 'No > such device GRUB RESCUE' on my screen. I didn't understand the > principles of Grub Rescue so after some days of hair pulling and > knashing teeth I decided that since my main reason for loading Ubuntu > was to use it to run a web/blog (hosting company's seem to prefer > Linux as the operating system, generally charging a smaller monthly > subscription if you use Linux than Windows) then I would do away with > Windows entirely and use Ubuntu on my main hard drive and as my main > operating system. Fortunately I had purchased a new 'second hand' > computer specifically for the purpose and so whilst I had also > purchased additional Microsoft and other software which would be > redundant, the machine had nothing of importance that I didn't mind > losing. Reformatting the hard drive and loading from there was easy, > everything being done remotely from the installation wizard and have > had no problems since. It appears to be very stable and does > everything that I could get from a PC and an added bonus is that I > have found that by operating Ubuntu on my computer it is faster than > it was when loaded with Windows. And of course the big, big bonus is > that all the software is totally free! I haven't missed Windows at > all during these past 3 months. > > One little niggle I do have is the amount of upgrades that seem to > automatically download, perhaps this is one of the downsides to > having community based programming with so many different people > involved in the process. On the plus side I have to give a big thumbs > up to the help that you can receive from the very friendly and > helpful members of the Ubuntu community, thanks to Barry in my case > for all his help and advice. > > Congratulations to all who have worked on the programme and look > forward to seeing the latest Natty Narwhal 11.04 upgrade which is > supposed to be very exciting, although you apparently will need an > accelerated 3d graphics chipset to obtain full functionality so > probably won't help in my case." From John Rudland. > > End quote. > > Regards, Barry > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
