[TriLUG] Ubuntu on my laptop, wow

[Mark Freeze]

I'll have to second Randall's excitement.  A few days ago I wrote in
to ask what the best distro for a novice user would be and the answer
was overwhelmingly Ubuntu.  I downloaded and installed the single CD
and was really surprised. The ease of use, detection of ALL of the
hardware...  Everything was great.  I have considered switching away
from my trust Mandrake but I just can't pull the trigger...

Regards,
Mark.



On 6/24/05, Randall Barlow <rpbarlow at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> I wrote the list a few months back asking for recommendations on
> distributions that make it easy for Laptops.  Got a lot of responses,
> but overwhelmingly I head "Ubuntu" (well, Kubuntu also :))  So I finally
> got around to kicking M$ in the face last night as it crapped out on me
> (what a surprise) and so I installed it.  It booted with the wireless
> already running.  Wow.  I used to use FC3 and the wireless gave me a lot
> of trouble.  I could get it to work, but every time I updated the kernel
> I had to reconfigure all the wireless stuff.  (Not knocking FC, it just
> doesn't make it easy for laptop users)  So Ubuntu is great so far.  I
> really know nothing about it yet, as I am not used to Debian.  My
> desktop has been running Gentoo for quite some time now (I wouldn't even
> begin to try to run that on my laptop), so I am used to the "dirty work"
> side of Linux so to speak.  Ubuntu is quite refreshing.  I'm sure I'll
> have some questions for you guys at some point along the way about it
> though ;)  Thanks for the recommendation!
> 
> Randy Barlow
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