[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu CNR deal

[alan c]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 08:25 +0000, alan c wrote:
>> I have had no problem with automatix or with easy ubuntu. 
> 
> How many machines have you install automatix and all the gumpf and then
> upgraded to the next release using update manager? In the past this has
> been the bit that has bitten quite a few people.
> 
>> I *do* know 
>> why the codecs are not there initially and I do know how to go about 
>> getting them myself, but life is short and I do *not* want to spend my 
>> life learning linux inside out, I want to *use* it.
>> 
> 
> But you don't have to learn much.

I do not want to have to learn anything really at all


> In fact all you have to do is
> copy/paste some stuff off a web page

? which apps, which codecs, which whatever, which web page, which 
version, - it is endless - that is until it becomes more standardised 
within a distro such as (k)ubuntu and can be done as easily as a 
bundle with a few,  preferably one, mindless click.

The hours I stand at computer fairs talking to people who want to move 
from windows but are not capable of doing anything more that automatix 
(if they are lucky), makes me believe that binary blobs or not, stuff 
like automatic codecs are a critical factor in the wider use of Ubuntu.


>. Once you know where those pages
> are, and have done it once or twice it's really very easy to setup.

That is ok for me in my role of admin help advisor for others, but I 
am more than fully occupied anyway at present.
It is *not* satisfactory for average Joe and Jill who would not expect 
to even know what an Operating System is. And I spend time at computer 
fairs (yesterday) actually demonstrating just that to two guys!

> Feisty will make it easier though :)

Good
:-)

-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
Linux user #360648