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The Clueless Newbie Rides Again
overshoot writes "Anyone remember The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey? As it happens, she's come back to have a go at Ubuntu Feisty. 'Four years ago I tried about a dozen Linux distributions, to see if they were ready for an ordinary user to install as an escape from the Windows world. None of the distros performed well enough for me to recommend them to a non-geek unless they were going to hire someone to install it. After hearing Dell's recent announcement that it will sell computers with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux, I decided to see if Ubuntu was user-friendly.'"
WTF? You don't expect me to go RTFA do you? That's what all those high UID peons are for. Someone post a cogent summary.
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...but does it run lin... er... WoW... I mean... nevermind.
Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
I stopped reading after this point. I hope the conclusion was something on the lines of "it works if you have a live-in geek". That's a cop out - saying you've got a problem but it was resolved by the fact that your partner is a technical expert.
Exactly! Until it can be used by someone without ever having to rely on outside assistance from someone more savvy, Linux remains an obvious step below such issueless competitors as Microsoft Windows (whose users are known the world over for their trouble-free operations and complete eschewing of support), and that caveat should be mentioned at every opportunity.
Running Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSX and Linux in the home. (I don't have time for Solitaire any more.)
He waited and bought her a Nintendo Wii.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Sure, he probably googled most of it, but he actually felt the need to learn more instead of just scratching his head and offering me beer to fix his problem. I do miss the beer though :(
Ahhh, yes, when "free as in beer" means the end of free beer...
This guy's the limit!
Scanning registry 1 of 1000 MB...
Found alexa
Found About Blank
Found Russian spam bot
Found Office 2003
Attempting to apt-get...
Could not find alexa
Could not find bonzi buddy
Could not find Russian spam bot
Installing open office
Importing spam mail 3 of 106,184
Done.
Yeah. If only we had a distribution that was kind of like Ubuntu, but had slower releases. Ubuntu does releases twice a year, so maybe we could make a new distribution based on Ubuntu that had releases every couple years. It would be known as a uber-stable distribution, but wouldn't have all the newest bleeding-edge versions of apps. That would be totally sweet.
Ha, I felt that same fear just this weekend.
While cleaning out my hunting cabin I found a Dell Latitude LS that I thought I'd lost. Nice small laptop but it had Windows 98 on it.
Since my current laptop needs are met by Apple I thought I might as well see how Ubuntu will run on it. During the install I was concerned that it might somehow think I wanted to keep the Win98 partition despite the fact that I specifically asked it to use the entire disk. It never really did confirm anything.
Much to my relief Win98 was gone upon reboot.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Now flame me, please.
OK.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
ericrost : NORMAL USERS don't install OS's.
AC: Don't give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!
ericrost : What?
AC: Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous, pervert!!!
ericrost : Look, I CAME HERE FOR AN ARGUMENT, I'm not going to just stand...!!
AC: OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse.
ericrost : Oh, I see, well, that explains it.
AC: Ah yes, you want room 12A, Just along the corridor.
ericrost : Oh, Thank you very much. Sorry.
AC: Not at all.
ericrost : Thank You.
AC: (Stupid git!!)
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us
Yeah, I can only get one or two phaser hits on my linux boxes before they adapt.
"The rest run a dead OS because Linus has a job."
And Bill Gates isn't the CEO of Microsoft anymore, either. Windows must be dead, too!
Save us, Steve Jobs, you're our only hope!