I ran small club meetings Monday and Wednesday (different people, all retired), five or six in each meeting, and all are interested in Libre computing, however they are still all using Windows on their usual PCs and would regard themselves as non techie novices, at the slightly ambitious end of things.
I had a bunch of Ubuntu 11.10 CDs to offer, and this was demonstrated as installed and also in live session. One more experienced attender had already downloaded it and installed it on a 10 year old laptop and it was actually running almost normally, albeit with slight delays. Impressive. One attender said 11.10 had a good review in a computer Mag. Everyone seemed to quite like it. Before one meeting my wife had asked for 11.10 to be installed on her Meenee laptop, (I am still using Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS on my main PC) it just got on in time, and made a nice showing. A long time friend had recently said he now wanted (at last!) to try Ubuntu dual boot, so this was completed yesterday and with a delivery briefing and q & a this morning. The intention was that a friend of his can now see it and it might be good for both of them in the near future. 'Swish' looking was one comment. Another friend is still waiting (and asking) in the wings for (Unity) because I said will prefer to upgrade them after 12.04 is released and settled. All in all, Unity is being well received by these novices, with no hint of them wanting a hierarchical menu system. -- alan cocks -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
