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.
Do I detect sarcasm? You may have missed my point. PCLinuxOS worked perfectly, and I’ve YET to mess with an Ubuntu that installs so well.
I’m NOT interested in tweaks, massive user configuration, shells, etc. My goal with a computer is to turn it on and use it, not configure it. That is my whole beef with Ubuntu is that it has never done exactly that. User-friendly is not ever having to open a command line. If I WANTED, or had a DESIRE, to use the command line, I would have read more on it, but that’s not why I have a computer on my desk. I’m not a programmer, I’m a user. That is why PCLinuxOS was so superior. Install, use. Period.