ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 57, Issue 183

[Ashley Benton]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:19 AM, sg1 <thedoctor at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 21:12 +0800, sg1 wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Every one keeps on saying that there Grand Mother and six year old son
> > can use Ubunta, the problem is that it is easy to install and use email
> > and surfing the web but when it comes to installing programs is next to
> > impossible, I do not mean the add/remove programs, but programs that
> > have been independently written, one waste so much time on trying to
> > install the programs with out any success like collabcad.
>
> >
> > I spent hours trying to use terminal or days to be more honest, all
> > these web site tell you how to install these programs but just errors
> > occur.
>

Errors occurs but they do with Windows too, I installed dreamweaver on Vista
and it completely mess up the computer!
I don't know if they fixed the incompatibility and I don't really care as
the program went in the trash to have a working computer.
The difference is when you have an error in Windows you have to pay for the
support and can't fix it yourself (except if you know what you are doing)
but when you have a problem with Ubuntu people are here to help you as long
as you need it.
Ubuntu is not complicated and you don't need to spend hours or days in the
terminal but knowing how to use it is useful.
I did spent time to learn how to use the terminal and can do most of the
basic things when needed and when I need help this mailing list has always
been here and helped me solve my problems and learn.

Meg


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