[ubuntu-za] Configuring Ubuntu 11.10

[Hannes Coetzee]

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The same thing happened with KDE when KDE 4 came out. People complained, 
some moved to Gnome, some went back to Windows and others just stuck 
with KDE 3.5 for a while. It took a few months before KDE 4 grew on me. 
The biggest problem seems to be that people don't like change (a reason 
many people stick with Windows) and few are willing to take the time and 
familiarize themselves with new features. A lot of people choose to 
complain rather than adapt. The best thing to do is to take a weekend 
and learn whatever you need to + look on the bright side, you could have 
been without choices.No big changes are ever made in the Lunix community 
are without good reason and in the end almost all of the users tend to 
agree with the upstream choices.

As for the original problem on this thread, I would recommend it to any 
computer user to make a point of learning something new about their 
computer or operating system every day. If you are not familiar with the 
command line then linuxcommand.org is a good place to start. The 
knowledge and understanding one gains from learning how to do things 
without depending on the GUI is not easily explained.

Happy holidays and all the best for the festive season.
Hannes