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The Clueless Newbie Rides Again

Posted by Zonk on from the i-want-a-clean-thread-no-eye-gouging dept.

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.'"

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  1. And? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:And? by Enry · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      Exactly. Let me know when you're done, newbie.
  2. Re:Not at all clueless by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  3. Yes I can just see that working by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:The best point to note by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:So? by fonik · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I can only get one or two phaser hits on my linux boxes before they adapt.