On 3 July 2011 17:31, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > 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......."
I read the first few days of the series then lost interest, but reminded of it by this thread, I have just read them all. The most interesting thing, for me, is in his summing-up. #3 most-liked feature of Ubuntu? Unity. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/234791-2/ubuntu_linux_day_29_five_things_i_like_most_about_ubuntu_linux.html -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
