On 03/07/11 12:40, alan c wrote: > On 03/07/11 10:07, Barry Titterton wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 09:50 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: >>> Silly me forgot the link! >>> >>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229187/30_days_withubuntu_linux.html >>> >>> 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux >>> >>> By Tony Bradley, PCWorld >>> @TheTonyBradley >>> >>> >>> On 6/8/11, Andrés Muñiz Piniella<andre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I've been following up 7 days of this guy fighting a change to Ubuntu >>> > from Windows7. >>> > >>> > Sadly he is finding loads of contradictory messages, rants about >>> > linux, rants about mint, rants about nvidia drivers... >>> > >>> > But a very interesting read. Linux foundation is retweeting every >>> > single blogpost. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Andrés Muñiz-Piniella > >> Has anybody else been following this series? What are your thoughts? > > I have looked in occasionally. I decided early on that he is a well > established Windows user and the series is a slightly veiled long > drawn out winge about how difficult Ubuntu can be made to seem. The > few items of praise he offers are almost half hearted. > > It is unrealistic in that all of the Ubuntu users I help did not have > to install Ubuntu at all, just like before that they did not have to > install Windows either. > > People like myself, who did install Ubuntu on my own, learned a bit > about 'partitions' and act as my own administrator, are seen as total > experts by people that I help (!), and I certainly have never used > 'grep', which is one of the two commands he says he had to use. I > avoid cl like a dose of 'flu, and I get by very well thank you. > > The good news is that it does keep Ubuntu in people's sight, in > creases visibility, and it saves me a lot of effort trying to let > others know it really exists...... > > The elephant in the room is that he bought a machine pre installed > with Windows, and so did most other people in the world. And > preinstalled Ubuntu machines, if you can arrange to get one, are a > dream compared with windows land.
Just to illustrate the background of this reviewer (Tony Bradley, PCWorld) http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/234994/30_days_with_the_ipad.html "I mean giving up the Windows 7 OS that I love--again. In case you're just joining us, I just got done spending 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. I was looking forward to getting back to Windows, but......." -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
