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Originally Posted by chemicalfan 
Sorry for the double post, but this is rubbish. Bubba - Might I suggest that you try installing Ubuntu in a VM or something before making a statement like that? I'd argue that the Ubuntu installer is just as easy to work as Windows (you don't have to mess about with a product key or activation either)
Sorry for the double post, but this is rubbish. Bubba - Might I suggest that you try installing Ubuntu in a VM or something before making a statement like that? I'd argue that the Ubuntu installer is just as easy to work as Windows (you don't have to mess about with a product key or activation either)
Maybe there has been some kind of drastic change in the past 10 months (since I tried meerkat) but I highly doubt it. Before I wired my house with Cat 6 and I was using a WNA1000 on my main pc, the last time I tried to install ubuntu it took me half a day of jumping through hoops trying to get it to work. I finally had to unplug the computer, take it into the room with the router and plug it in so I could get online to do the steps needed to get it going (the wifi). If I were an average joe I would have given up long before that point and thrown the disk out. Personally I like Mint (I'll probably spend the weekend playing with 13 now that it's out) but that's just my preference and even Mint is a pain to get some wifi adapters working. And that's the whole point I'm making. Linux may be great once it's up and going and everything is properly set up, but that's not ALWAYS an easy process. I'll say it once MORE, I really do hope that mindsets can be on making Linux as easy to setup and run as the other guys. I would LOVE to be able to completely ditch windows (I refuse to use Win 8 anyways after using that crap of a ui called metro) and go completely with linux. I will say this. I love my android tablet and I hope ICS and beyond brings together all the fragmentation.
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And you made an assumption that simply because I made a criticism of it that I "dislike" it. You know what they say about assuming. And there may be 10 pages of posts "claiming" how easy it is but I dare you to take 20 average NON computer geek types, give them each a CD/DVD of the distro of your choice, ask them to go home and install it on their computer and use it. Then ask them in a week how many are still using it.
