[ubuntu-uk] Precise - some thoughts .....

[Bill Baker]

On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 21:17 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there ....  One of many things I've learned from spending time on 
> Ubuntu Answers and AskUbuntu is that a significant number of folk are 
> totally confused because they have a wubi installation.  In many cases I 
> have spotted this early on in the process of trying to help.  One lady 
> was asked (not by me) to boot from the live-DVD and click the 'Try 
> Ubuntu' option.  She does not get the 'Try Ubuntu' option.  To her, 
> booting meant putting the disk in while Windows was running.  She does 
> have a wubi installation with a failed upgrade that I think we may sort out.
> 
> Now, we have a significant number of ordinary folk familiar only with 
> Windows, wanting to try Ubuntu.  I'd like to see a change in the Autorun 
> behaviour under Windows.  Rather than automatically firing wubi up, I'd 
> like to see the autorun bring up an HTML page with several links and an 
> explanation about exactly what wubi is and does.  Then the suggestion 
> that the user ought to first try Ubuntu with full instructions as to how 
> to boot from a DVD in really basic terms.  Most computers these days 
> come with the bios options NOT set to boot from anything other than a 
> hard-drive.
> 
> One question I'm painfully working through is from someone who is 
> thinking of using wubi simply because when he starts the computer it 
> does not boot from the DVD.  He actually wants to try Ubuntu to see if 
> it's for him.  Wubi would not be right in this case, and BIOS settings 
> are a foreign word to him.  I'm trying really hard to explain with 
> little success so far, what they are about.
> 
> Any thoughts on this from you guys?
> 
> Regards,        Barry.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team.
> http://ubuntuadverts.org/
> 
> 
Not quite the situation, but...

This very morning I had a wonderful example of similar.  the user was,
however, communicating via their desktop pooter whilst about to try
Ubuntu on their netbook.  It was a wonderful case of Four questions
asked - four questions answered - Ubuntu installed.

The difference here is that the user had enough nouse to ask before
use.... if only the situation you describe could replicate that, then
all would be good.

-- 
Regards,
Bill B. [SuperEngineer]

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