[ubuntu-us-in] Gutsy Release Party

[Keith Karnafel]

Greetings,

I tried not to reply to the troll like M$ glorification but can't resist any
longer. The last two weeks I spent my free time setting up internet access
on Vista machines for two  friends of mine. (Each at different location.)
Each had problems with Vista only wanting to network via wireless... even
with wireless disabled. The solution in each case was setting up the network
with one of my laptops... (Gutsy) As far as printer set up goes you have to
be joking.. I have a brother MFC5440CN which set up without a problem in
Feisty. Brother has all the linux drivers just need to run one command line
first. My HP printers worked immediately in Feisty, yes plug N play, and
didn't have to use an installation disk with a couple hundred megs of
useless programs to install.. One of my friends I just mentioned was unable
to set up their Brother printer networked with Vista. Again, I set it up
with a Brother printer via Brothers Linux network printer utility. In all
cases it was much faster with Linux. But I think hardware drivers are more a
responsibility of the manufacturer... We need to let them know we want Linux
drivers.

How many of us have had bad installs with a Windows driver or an unknown
device? If you haven't I'd be shocked. Of course you would have to
install/reboot/un-install/search registry for left over crap from a
bad install. Ubuntu - program installation can't get much easier than
clicking a check box. There's no need for command line to install many
applications. No problems with conflicting DLL versions or OLE
communications.

I purchased a Vista machine early spring for one of my step-daughters. (It
was a very good deal at the time-cheaper than building my own... which I do
much to my wife chagrin.) Which since then it has had to be restored a
couple of times, each time required a call to M$ because Vista would say
after that it was a forged copy. Then finally required a fresh install and
the hunt for drivers began. I have yet to ever install Win2K, XP or Vista
where it didn't require a visit to manufacturer website to download drivers.
And another call to M$  for new product key. Eventually installed Feisty on
that computer and run XP in VMWare server and I haven't had to fix anything
since. Before it was nearly every week. Funny thing is that on my Gateway
and Dell laptops all hardware including the media buttons worked with Feisty
and now Gutsy without looking for drivers. The built in webcam on Dell 1420
I did have to tweak a config file but that was it. Everything has worked out
of the box. My Inspiron 6000 with integrated graphics would never run Vista
basic but it runs Gutsy with Compiz-fusion without any difficulty. Actually
had to slow down the effects to see them better.

All of my grand children are able to use the Feisty without a problem. My
seven year old has figured out keyboard short cuts. How she figured them out
have no idea but I watch her using them. If you are really conceptually
fixed on how M$ does things try out KDE desktop; it seems more similiar to
the desktop orientation. Perhaps I could wright a scipt for you to run every
so often that would take up lots of cpu and time acting like it's
defragmenting the HD, scanning and finding a few thousand viruses and
malware, and periodically freezes the desktop with a blue screen or states a
termination due to a cryptic memory problem. Perhaps I could write a script
that makes you reboot the computer after any kind of program installation.
But none of that is needed since we already have Windows.

 Not a week goes by where someone doesn't asks me a question about their
Windows computer running too slow or there's a problem of some sort and
could I look at it. That's not a hallmark of an easy operating system when
you have to trouble shoot it that often. I'll stop now.
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