Ubuntu One store has enough music to buy things. I have found that the latest Album by Blunt is cheaper than iTunes and amazon. I thought amarok and banshee had support to put music inside the ipod? Recently I installed ubuntu on a girl's laptop that I haddn't even met face to face. She had XP and was going slow because of antivirus it seems. She only uses it for facebook and email so she seems to be happy with what she had: only problem I had was that I fogot to tell her the keyring password. Also had a problem with father in law: HDD broke windows wasn't loggin it. It was an IDE HDD so not something you can easyliy find it seems. He was content with waiting a while longer and booting from an Xubuntu live CD. It's only used for browsing. Sister in law had a netbook with xp it crashed. Her other brother in law was unable to install a dodgy copy of windows but I was able to install no problem ubuntu netbook10.10. Even hung over from newyears party she knew that firefox icon was internet and that she could do her documents with openoffice. I told her I could provide with remote support (I can right?) and she was well happy that I could recover her 16Gb of pictures. I tried explaining gwibber but was not convinced. Chat with facebook (empathy) failed but that happens to me as well.. quote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 +0000 From: Barry Drake <<a href="mailto:bdrake@crosswire.org">bdrake@crosswire.org</a>> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ... To: UK Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1293451578.2118.38.camel@<div id=":17r">pcspecialist> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Those of you on the advertising list will know that Dant? Ashton and I have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of the average Windows user. Please consider helping with this research. The aim is to pick a particular 'need' and to follow through whether this need can be met under Ubuntu, how easily and how successfully. This use should ideally be one that your Windows friend would have, and preferably a need that you know little about. First take a look at: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/switching/C/applications-equivalents.html" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/switching/C/applications-equivalents.html</a> This page may need revision, and certainly needs extending. Rules for research: any necessary packages to be easily and quickly installed without using the commandline. The preference would be to use the Ubuntu Software Centre. If you have a way of meeting the need, but this requires commandline or other methods, please submit this anyway - Ubuntu could incorporate a simple workaround. Any scripts or code you write to make things work could be posted. Stuff like that could easily be part of a package and run on installation without the user being in any way aware of the complexity. When you have done the research, please report on how easy it was to access the information and provide links if a good method is suggested online somewhere. So far, I have researched iPod and iTunes. I have also explored Logos/Libronix as a colleague has over ?1000 worth of books in that format. I have to report that Ubuntu is not for him. I have e-mailed Logos and received a reply stating that at present they do not have plans to support our platform. The same was true of Mac until many many Mac users complained to Logos! A niche area, but maybe you'd like to aid that cause? I also did a webcam exercise with my sister. The task was dead easy for me - but incredibly daunting for my sister and it need not have been! That one hardly wants any tweaking but it does need tweaking and properly documenting. Researching iTunes, I found an official Ubuntu document that said iTunes would install under PlayOnLinux. I tested this. Only iTunes 10.6 can be made to work, and it installs crippled. The CD rip and burn facilities don't work. It is official policy that we do not include methods based on Wine or any of its derivatives as these, however good, are not for the Ubuntu newbie. The result of the above is that iTunes can be perfectly replaced and iPods work just fine under Ubuntu with several apps BUT the Apple download store cannot be accessed. Most of you knew that already - I was working in the dark and discovered how hard it was to get information that a newbie could follow. So - lay aside your geekiness for a time, imagine you're a newbie and volunteer to research a particular need. Please state the one you are thinking of pursuing so we don't duplicate the effort. If there's a good response, maybe someone who has admin access to the Canonical or Ubuntu website can set up a Wiki for us to report back on? Hope I'm not treading on any Canonical toes here .... apologies in advance if I am. Regards, Barry Drake.</div> -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella