I don’t know how else to say it… but something is going on.
A few weeks ago, I didn’t want to upgrade to Vista, I was sick of XP filled with spywear garbage so I upgraded to Ubuntu mostly out of necessity, my machine would have never ran Vista as it’s just a Celeron with 256 of ram. Vista’s asking price plus the cost to upgrade the machine would not be a viable option.
Uninstalled XP, Installed Ubuntu… and volia … the freaking thing went 10x faster than before… no serious problems … openoffice worked like a charm.. wifi card worked… could go though the microsoft Windows network, no problem.
Been using it for a few weeks and my fairly computer illiterate mom visits my house and asks if she could check her e-mail.. I was typing on my other windows machine, my wife had her laptop at work… leaving just the Ubuntu Machine open for her use.
I gave her the laptop… totally forgetting about Linux on it.. and I hear from the other room ‘What’s the Username?” and “What’s the password” I shouted them over to her..
About a minute later.. I hear “Is Firefox like Internet Explorer?” I shout back yes… still forgetting it’s linux… thinking to myself “what the hell is she doing poking around on my computer”
I walk over to her and see her checking her web mail… has another tab open going to her MLS listings (she is a Realtor) and another tab open searching for stuff on Google.
then it hit me… my Mom was using Linux and didn’t even notice.
When I am saying Something is going on… something is going on… 3 years ago Linux wasn’t this easy to use….
Microsoft already lost the Internet… I have a sinking feeling that they are about to lose the desktop as well.
I don’t know how else to say it…………you are deluded.
I like Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu 75% of the time. I agree that it’s come a long way.
But there’s a difference your mom being able to log on and use Firefox and Microsoft “losing the desktop”. Did your mom spend an afternoon getting the audio to work after an install? Did your mom have to manually edit any configuration files to get the video card to fulfill it’s intended functions? Did your mom ask why each appliction (with notable exceptions like Open Office and anything distributed by Mozilla) seemed like a bad imitation of the software she might use on a Windows machine?
There’s a long way left to go.
I don’t know how else to say it…………you are deluded.
I like Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu 75% of the time. I agree that it’s come a long way.
But there’s a difference your mom being able to log on and use Firefox and Microsoft “losing the desktop”. Did your mom spend an afternoon getting the audio to work after an install? Did your mom have to manually edit any configuration files to get the video card to fulfill it’s intended functions? Did your mom ask why each appliction (with notable exceptions like Open Office and anything distributed by Mozilla) seemed like a bad imitation of the software she might use on a Windows machine?
There’s a long way left to go.
“uninstalled xp”… buckets of lol.
“uninstalled xp”… buckets of lol.
I have Ubuntu 8.10, been running Linux since 7.10. Have not had to do anything to “set it up” since 8.04. Wireless works. Video works. OO works. Everything works. The support community far surpasses any other I’ve seen, even Fedora or OpenSuSe. Yes, I have looked at them. Yes I have used them. Yes, I like them. Ubuntu is just better, works better, and has a better community. http://www.crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine is a great place to ask the questions you have about problems. I’ve always found what I’m looking for in the first few posts. I have run WoW, Warcraft 3, C&C 3, so i know it does games. I took a Microsoft Office class in college, using JUST Open Office, and ace’d it. Just sayin…
I have Ubuntu 8.10, been running Linux since 7.10. Have not had to do anything to “set it up” since 8.04. Wireless works. Video works. OO works. Everything works. The support community far surpasses any other I’ve seen, even Fedora or OpenSuSe. Yes, I have looked at them. Yes I have used them. Yes, I like them. Ubuntu is just better, works better, and has a better community. http://www.crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine is a great place to ask the questions you have about problems. I’ve always found what I’m looking for in the first few posts. I have run WoW, Warcraft 3, C&C 3, so i know it does games. I took a Microsoft Office class in college, using JUST Open Office, and ace’d it. Just sayin…
i use 8.10. i love it. i will upgrade to 9.04 soon.
i use 8.10. i love it. i will upgrade to 9.04 soon.
NEVER had a version of Ubuntu that worked properly on my 6 bit Celeron system.
Ubuntu has never done well by me. PCLinuxOS works flawlessly on it.
FWIW, the wireless dropout problem can be fixed, but YOU need to research how. Mine works fine.
NEVER had a version of Ubuntu that worked properly on my 6 bit Celeron system.
Ubuntu has never done well by me. PCLinuxOS works flawlessly on it.
FWIW, the wireless dropout problem can be fixed, but YOU need to research how. Mine works fine.
64 bit celeron (hello? site admin? could you please enable us editing our posts?)
64 bit celeron (hello? site admin? could you please enable us editing our posts?)
wow!
wow!
I’m hearing a lot of “your mom can’t use a terminal” here.
Who cares? The point of this is that people are trying Ubuntu, realizing that it isn’t scary.
I read someone that years ago, a Best Buy had Ubuntu on it’s shelves for free, but nobody bought it. As an experiment, they rose the price to $20 and people started to buy it.
People are scared of free. Getting people to realize that the more expensive product is not always better is an important step for widespread linux usage.
People are scared of change as well. I had to set up my parents Vista computer and make it look like Windows 98 (because they were afraid to learn how it worked). Seeing people try to learn something for such a trivial thing as solitaire is a victory in my books.
I think one of the greatest thing lately for Linux is Wubi. This allows users to try linux and remove it easily in Add/Remove programs. Greatest thing ever.
I’m hearing a lot of “your mom can’t use a terminal” here.
Who cares? The point of this is that people are trying Ubuntu, realizing that it isn’t scary.
I read someone that years ago, a Best Buy had Ubuntu on it’s shelves for free, but nobody bought it. As an experiment, they rose the price to $20 and people started to buy it.
People are scared of free. Getting people to realize that the more expensive product is not always better is an important step for widespread linux usage.
People are scared of change as well. I had to set up my parents Vista computer and make it look like Windows 98 (because they were afraid to learn how it worked). Seeing people try to learn something for such a trivial thing as solitaire is a victory in my books.
I think one of the greatest thing lately for Linux is Wubi. This allows users to try linux and remove it easily in Add/Remove programs. Greatest thing ever.