I just installed Ubuntu at home on a computer for my wife and kids and while I have some limited experience with UNIX and VAX VMS back in the early 90's, I have been in a windows shop ever since. Ubuntu installs easily, recognized my hardware, and worked 99%. Problem areas have been, getting older printer to work correctly, changing the resolution on my screen, audio on flash. My kids play a lot of flash games on-line and the audio doesn't work for some reason. Success: Cost, ease of install, my wife can check her email, my kids can write their papers on OpenOffice and print to my printer on my windows machine. Ubuntu has shown me that Linux has made great strides in the desktop arena and is well worth investigating before shelling out the bucks.
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I just installed Ubuntu at home on a computer for my wife and kids and while I have some limited experience with UNIX and VAX VMS back in the early 90's, I have been in a windows shop ever since. Ubuntu installs easily, recognized my hardware, and worked 99%. Problem areas have been, getting older printer to work correctly, changing the resolution on my screen, audio on flash. My kids play a lot of flash games on-line and the audio doesn't work for some reason. Success: Cost, ease of install, my wife can check her email, my kids can write their papers on OpenOffice and print to my printer on my windows machine. Ubuntu has shown me that Linux has made great strides in the desktop arena and is well worth investigating before shelling out the bucks.