I recently migrated my father over to Ubuntu from winxp, while he is only in his 50's he was still quite new and ignorant to the world of computing. How did he take the change you might ask? He handled the change very well I must say. I think the most difficult part of Linux to the new user is getting installed and set up to perform... being that I took care of that, he can now enjoy the internet in a carefree manner and honestly just look for trouble if he so desires. Which is what the internet it is all about. It's really gratifying to be able to liberate your parents from m$ and even more so not having to worry about whether or not they will get a virus or key logged. That pretty much just leaves phishing to worry about... Thats my 411.
I just recently bought a $200 sotec laptop from a pawnshop and its my first laptop to date. I originally put windows xp on it and followed by putting arch linux on it.
After a week of use with both operating systems side by side, i stuck with windows because it was just so much more usable on a laptop. It gave the experience when everything just worked. In fact everything was peachy for a couple of weeks... till it started acting kindof suspicious, i'm guessing it got a virus from the performance hit it took. At any rate, it prompted me to continue looking for a distro to dual boot with that would be usable.
After a bit of searching i went ahead and tried out this kubuntu live cd from "flight 7" http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/dapper/ flight-7/
I had previously tried ubuntu on my desktop but was disappointed with its performance when compared to arch linux. However, kubuntu proved to be excellent on a laptop. Similar to windows, everything just works. The atheros-based belkin card I had worked out of the box once i ran the included wireless assistant to configure the connection.
The new live cd has an install program called ubiquity that installs kubuntu even while you are using it as a live cd... similar to dsl's installer i guess. Its ntfs resizing isn't too painful either.
One of my only complaints about linux on this particular laptop is that its not quite as peppy as it is under windows, and im suspecting that its the display drivers fault.. the sis 630 integrated gfx card doesnt work well with glx extensions contrary to what glx_gears says.
Just give (k)ubuntu a shot, i think you will be plesantly surprised, i was.
I'm farily confident that they switch back to having palm OS eventually...
Realistically its just a matter of common sense. Would you run an OS made by microsoft on any device that lacked the ctrl, alt, and delete keys?
... or perhaps they are targeting the demographic of pda users that are masochists.
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Personally, I enjoy using geany. http://www.geany.org/
I recently migrated my father over to Ubuntu from winxp, while he is only in his 50's he was still quite new and ignorant to the world of computing. How did he take the change you might ask? He handled the change very well I must say. I think the most difficult part of Linux to the new user is getting installed and set up to perform... being that I took care of that, he can now enjoy the internet in a carefree manner and honestly just look for trouble if he so desires. Which is what the internet it is all about. It's really gratifying to be able to liberate your parents from m$ and even more so not having to worry about whether or not they will get a virus or key logged. That pretty much just leaves phishing to worry about... Thats my 411.
I just recently bought a $200 sotec laptop from a pawnshop and its my first laptop to date. I originally put windows xp on it and followed by putting arch linux on it. After a week of use with both operating systems side by side, i stuck with windows because it was just so much more usable on a laptop. It gave the experience when everything just worked. In fact everything was peachy for a couple of weeks... till it started acting kindof suspicious, i'm guessing it got a virus from the performance hit it took. At any rate, it prompted me to continue looking for a distro to dual boot with that would be usable. After a bit of searching i went ahead and tried out this kubuntu live cd from "flight 7" http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/dapper/ flight-7/
I had previously tried ubuntu on my desktop but was disappointed with its performance when compared to arch linux. However, kubuntu proved to be excellent on a laptop. Similar to windows, everything just works. The atheros-based belkin card I had worked out of the box once i ran the included wireless assistant to configure the connection.
The new live cd has an install program called ubiquity that installs kubuntu even while you are using it as a live cd... similar to dsl's installer i guess. Its ntfs resizing isn't too painful either.
One of my only complaints about linux on this particular laptop is that its not quite as peppy as it is under windows, and im suspecting that its the display drivers fault.. the sis 630 integrated gfx card doesnt work well with glx extensions contrary to what glx_gears says.
Just give (k)ubuntu a shot, i think you will be plesantly surprised, i was.
With this new sensor I will know when its time to go back to the bathroom and reapply before the shit wears off.
a blindfold perhaps...
Realistically its just a matter of common sense. Would you run an OS made by microsoft on any device that lacked the ctrl, alt, and delete keys?