tweaking a new install

[Tobias Baldauf]

I think easyubuntu is just great for people who just want things to work
out-of-the-box. I used it out of curiosity & lazyness and after some
strange behaviour during install (not showing if it has installed the
marked items after it has finished operations..) and a reboot most
things it claimed to be able to install where really there & working.

This was a great positive suprise for me because now another big step
has been taken (or rather 'is being taken'...) to bring Ubuntu closer to
the average human being!

I mean - honestly - what could possibly have been more disarming as an
windows-user's argument as 'Linux doesn't even play my mp3s or videos -
therefore linux sucks!'? If I were trying to convince this person to
switch in the near future, my reply to that (stupid) utterance better
not be: 'Well, take 4h of your lifetime, read forums, mailing-lists and
manuals and then install the necessary packages'. If indeed it were, I'd
lose my chances of getting this person to use Ubuntu for good.
Now, in the near future I can just reply "Search for 'easyubuntu' in
your packages, run it & everything is just fine!". I like that. No, I
love that. A big THANKS to the guys from easyubuntu!

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> What do you think of EasyUbuntu?
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> easyubuntu also doesnt run some of the commands that
> automatix does (that could be concidered dangerous) but i really have to
> say how do you learn something by letting someone/something else do the
> work for you?