I’ve never been a fan of Ubuntu, or any command line work. When I was a TOTAL NEWB with Linux, I heard that ubuntu was the BEST! So I downloaded and burned a CD to install on my laptop test bed. Clueless. I couldn’t figure out what to do, couldn’t configure the internet, nothing. No sound, no hope.
But I tried a 10 pack of different flavors I bought off ebay for $10 and kept trying different “flavors”. The ONLY one that would load, configure, and present itself as ready to run, complete with wireless, was PCLinuxOS. Zero command line inputs, ever. Flash, everything worked.
If after all these years, Ubuntu still required tweaking, command line inputs, and mucking about, screw it. Not interested. Don’t bother posting “simple” commands to tell me how to do it either. I don’t care. That is retarded.
I can get around a Mint version I have on my Asus but it’s not a whit better than the 2007 version of PCLinuxOS.
Have been running Linux of some flavor since 1994. Started with a UMSDOS version of Slackware.
Currently running Xubuntu 11.04
Love it. But primarily because it relies on XFCE, my favorite user interphase. Started running XFCE when Redhat 8.0 came out. (was not in the install disc, but I added it)
In my opinion, Gnome 3 is bloated.
If after all these years, Ubuntu still required tweaking, command line inputs, and mucking about, screw it. Not interested. Don’t bother posting “simple” commands to tell me how to do it either. I don’t care. That is retarded.
Man, I feel your pain. I once decided to use a computer that had Windows on it, and discovered how impossibly geeky it was. I told it to start and do what I want, but I found it doesn't even speak English. Can you imagine? And then I was told, and this is hard to believe, that I had to point this "mouse" thingy at the icon to start an application. Good Lord, can you get any more complicated and intentionally difficult? And, of course, that didn't work either. When I picked up the mouse and aimed it at the icon on the screen nothing happened. And clicking it against the screen just demonstrated how flimsy the whole contraption is because it cracked the monitor. So ridiculous. And, like you, I am totally uninterested in suggestions about how to correct this utter lack of intelligent design on the part of computer manufacturers. As of now I am going back to banging two rocks together.