On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 21:17 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there .... One of many things I've learned from spending time on > Ubuntu Answers and AskUbuntu is that a significant number of folk are > totally confused because they have a wubi installation. In many cases I > have spotted this early on in the process of trying to help. One lady > was asked (not by me) to boot from the live-DVD and click the 'Try > Ubuntu' option. She does not get the 'Try Ubuntu' option. To her, > booting meant putting the disk in while Windows was running. She does > have a wubi installation with a failed upgrade that I think we may sort out. > > Now, we have a significant number of ordinary folk familiar only with > Windows, wanting to try Ubuntu. I'd like to see a change in the Autorun > behaviour under Windows. Rather than automatically firing wubi up, I'd > like to see the autorun bring up an HTML page with several links and an > explanation about exactly what wubi is and does. Then the suggestion > that the user ought to first try Ubuntu with full instructions as to how > to boot from a DVD in really basic terms. Most computers these days > come with the bios options NOT set to boot from anything other than a > hard-drive. > > One question I'm painfully working through is from someone who is > thinking of using wubi simply because when he starts the computer it > does not boot from the DVD. He actually wants to try Ubuntu to see if > it's for him. Wubi would not be right in this case, and BIOS settings > are a foreign word to him. I'm trying really hard to explain with > little success so far, what they are about. > > Any thoughts on this from you guys? > > Regards, Barry. > > -- > Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. > http://ubuntuadverts.org/ > > Not quite the situation, but...
This very morning I had a wonderful example of similar. the user was, however, communicating via their desktop pooter whilst about to try Ubuntu on their netbook. It was a wonderful case of Four questions asked - four questions answered - Ubuntu installed. The difference here is that the user had enough nouse to ask before use.... if only the situation you describe could replicate that, then all would be good. -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] ------------------------------ -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -----Free as in Freedom------ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
