Brunellus
May 31st, 2005, 11:50 AM
visited a friend of mine over the weekend. He's had to put up with my gushing about F/OSS and Ubuntu for a while now. He's not very technically-inclined, and while he's been intrigued by Linux he hasn't known how to begin.
Burned the Hoary LiveCD for him and booted it on his Sony VAIO laptop. I was pleasantly surprised at how it ran: all the important things autodetected! Of course, his hard drive (NTFS) wasn't mounted, but the MemoryStick in the built-in reader was autodetected and mounted!
My friend thought GNOME was cool. In his own words "it looks GREAT." Later on, he mused that Windows "just looks ugly. It hasn't been exciting for a while..." Later on, when I explained that Linux systems can stay up indefinitely without turning into the sluggish dogs that windows machines do, he perked up. He said he was going to see about using the ubuntu livecd more often, and then think about maybe installing it in his next computer.
A minor victory, I guess, since he didn't want to install it right away. But he was visibly impressed at the polish of the ubuntu/gnome environment.
Burned the Hoary LiveCD for him and booted it on his Sony VAIO laptop. I was pleasantly surprised at how it ran: all the important things autodetected! Of course, his hard drive (NTFS) wasn't mounted, but the MemoryStick in the built-in reader was autodetected and mounted!
My friend thought GNOME was cool. In his own words "it looks GREAT." Later on, he mused that Windows "just looks ugly. It hasn't been exciting for a while..." Later on, when I explained that Linux systems can stay up indefinitely without turning into the sluggish dogs that windows machines do, he perked up. He said he was going to see about using the ubuntu livecd more often, and then think about maybe installing it in his next computer.
A minor victory, I guess, since he didn't want to install it right away. But he was visibly impressed at the polish of the ubuntu/gnome environment.