John, you said it all !! Thanks, Allen On 3/17/07, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a complete newbie at this and I thought I would share some comments. > I love anything Open and found out about Ubuntu when installing > OpenOffice. Have been using Gmail and Firefox for years. > > I have never taken any computer courses in my life. However I'm the > 'administrator' in the house and I'm in charge of my parents computer > (which I switch to Mac because they could not figure out the XP > interface). Scary? Very common.... > > Made the CD image, which was easy. > Tried to boot on the desktop: took me some googling to know how to access > the BIOS set up (never had to do that with windows before), then found out > the whole thing froze, did not know why, some more googling before I realize > I don't have the Fat32 format (no idea how to switch over and definitely not > interested in potentially screwing up my files doing so). Gave up on that > machine, > > Went on an older machine my kids were using (the 9 year old thought it > was the coolest thing since it's not MS and he heard something about > Linux). Boot it no problem from the CD. Got Firefox going then realize > all the sites the kids like require plug-ins to be installed (they were > getting impatient at this point), then went on VMK.com and Shockwave is > required, then realize it's not going to work with Linux. The kids > walked out of the room.... > > So I love the idea of open software, but for some reason I don't think > Ubuntu is promoted right (OpenOffice either). You see Firefox > everywhere, gets promoted everywhere and its virtues are well known to > the general (non geek) public like myself. > > The installation and running needs to be a lot more intuitive ( I don't > have any computer taught to me, it's always been intuitively pushing > button to see what happens....). I definitely have no idea how to write > a script. Sure I could have the option of buying a computer with Linux > preinstalled but I'm not a computer geek per se and if I'm scared I'll > be going back to either Mac or Windows and want something to work right > out of the box. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Microsoft has a majority market share > https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 >
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