ubuntu.... so far.
This post is now brought to you by Ubuntu... and I quite like it.
I did a complete reformat tonight, and am running Ubuntu for the first time not from the liveCD, and it's quite nice.
It's fairly quick, does everything I want to do when I need it, and I can watch YouTube videos all I want without waiting for my computer's virtual memory to dump itself every 5 minutes!
However, it's doing one thing that is quite annoying if I'm honest,
It's making me feel inept.
Example 1: I was trying to install Adobe Flash Player 8, and after I downloaded it onto my desktop, I clicked "open file"
... and Ubuntu did nothing but ask me what application to open it with. I had no idea what was going on, so I sat there for 10 minutes trying to figure out why it wasn't doing what I wanted it to... until I found out I had to use "terminal" to execute it...
I had to look it up on the internet to install it, and if anyone were around, I would probably ask them for help... which is quite a sad feeling for someone who has been hooking up computers, and helping everyone else out for nearly 8 years now...
I feel like I need to start over, and relearn everything from the basics, how to install, compile, open packages, and etc etc..
It just all feels so foreign...
I guess this is what Mom feels like when she uses a computer... I just feel lost.
And I don't like it.
Ubuntu however, is a brilliant piece of work and I'm going to be sticking with it... but I will keep XP around just in case I need to use it.
I did a complete reformat tonight, and am running Ubuntu for the first time not from the liveCD, and it's quite nice.
It's fairly quick, does everything I want to do when I need it, and I can watch YouTube videos all I want without waiting for my computer's virtual memory to dump itself every 5 minutes!
However, it's doing one thing that is quite annoying if I'm honest,
It's making me feel inept.
Example 1: I was trying to install Adobe Flash Player 8, and after I downloaded it onto my desktop, I clicked "open file"
... and Ubuntu did nothing but ask me what application to open it with. I had no idea what was going on, so I sat there for 10 minutes trying to figure out why it wasn't doing what I wanted it to... until I found out I had to use "terminal" to execute it...
I had to look it up on the internet to install it, and if anyone were around, I would probably ask them for help... which is quite a sad feeling for someone who has been hooking up computers, and helping everyone else out for nearly 8 years now...
I feel like I need to start over, and relearn everything from the basics, how to install, compile, open packages, and etc etc..
It just all feels so foreign...
I guess this is what Mom feels like when she uses a computer... I just feel lost.
And I don't like it.
Ubuntu however, is a brilliant piece of work and I'm going to be sticking with it... but I will keep XP around just in case I need to use it.