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- 28 November, 2008 -
- Me, Technology -
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I finished my ubuntu experiment today and went back and wiped my family computer and reinstalled Windows XP. It’s not that I didn’t have a good ubuntu experience, but it’s just my family kept wanting to install programs that only ran on Windows. I finally gave in when my daughter got a Barbie MP3 player for her birthday that only ran on Windows and my wife and I didn’t want her monopolizing our laptops to play with it.
In review here’s how our four months with Ubuntu went…
- Easy to do a basic install and update. Took some work to get my pci wifi card, but installing a wireless hp deskjet was easier on Ubuntu than windows.
- Everyone could sit down and use it without additional instruction– even my three year old.
- Did all the basic great– web browsing, opened word documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints.
- Ran all of the above much faster than Windows XP on my family computer with less than a gig of RAM.
- Free operating system and free software– even used GIMP to edit photos.
I actually really like ubuntu. I had no problem using any of the programs and would have kept using it if the kids hadn’t commandeered my laptop.