A week ago last installed Linux on a computer after so many years looking forward to it, from Red Hat in 1993, SuSe and Mandrake in 1995 in 2002 ...
I tried Ubuntu on my netbook 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook Edition and 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Netbook Edition, and also tried 10.4 and 10.10 at the Desktop version on the HP laptop abominable corporate use at work (but not install, not to lose the "support" from the computer).
And the most convincing version was 10.4 Netbook Edition (in parentheses for the wise: I do not like anything the very recent 10.10 Netbook Edition is much less polished, more slowly, and much less intuitive than the 10.4 (Unity interface is pathetic), who is also a version LTS (Long Term Support, or lasting support, will continue to offer support on it until April 2013, as opposed to 10.10).
Finally, thanks to an ex-coworker GNU / Linux (because total Maquera now:)), install Ubuntu on my netbook, coexistence mode with Windows XP that was already in the netbook, and letting the Ubuntu decide how to stop the boot loader and everything.
Just 30 minutes (because I made the mistake of telling the Ubuntu all the music that mattered and documents, without remembering that the netbook I keep a copy of all music and all the literature, but it would have taken much less, I'm sure) and we were testing it.
At first I was not sure what user were, but then I remembered that on the Mac I was the same: the first user to create and with which you start the first session is an administrator, but NO is the root, if I remember correctly, and it is very easy to create another user, for routine use daily, but without administrator privileges to avoid irreparable mistakes committed by ignorance, such as deleting system files. Then
recognized everything, wireless, bluetooth, very easy to configure all
Then started tinkering with the Nautilus and the terminal-bash-shell, and that night I installed a couple of programs (LyX, the reason for nearly netbook , to write novels in progress, and all the material needed to surf the net but owner, Java and Flash abominable but omnipresent).
And I installed from the terminal, which, for the uninitiated, is a black window where you type text in white (as the window of this blog, but in reverse, and also this blog is text window inert, while in the terminal is the heart of Linux in its purest form, an operating system (the set of programs that let your computer do things and interact with humans) unimaginably powerful despite its innocuous appearance: in the Linux kernel there are no icons, or colors, no sound, no cool animations. just plain text in a window . But the hidden power behind that window is reflected in nearly 4 decades of impeccable professional performance (do not you would think that the big computers, banks, missile control, satellite control simulators, air traffic control, etc., are handled with Windows, right?).
There is something magical about typing a line (sudo apt get etc. Etc.) And see how the computer picks up things from the network, assembles, installs things, change its own configuration, and finally create an application where none existed, for to do more, and reports throughout the process of what is being done. It's like the continuous learning process of the human brain ... (Of course, I prefer to download an icon and drag it to a folder, and Mac OS X, but what's under the Mac OS X is a direct cousin of Ubuntu Linux.)
The feeling of robustness, reliability, and stability is unknown transmitting for users of Windows, which almost have been integrated into the noosphere that things are broken alone (Linux servers almost never go out, and its performance does not drop anything at all), that every so often you have to reboot, things are slow to start and shut down much (9 s in Ubuntu, by the way) ...
Everything points to gradually stop using Windows XP on my netbook ...
keep you informed.
Finally, thanks to an ex-coworker GNU / Linux (because total Maquera now:)), install Ubuntu on my netbook, coexistence mode with Windows XP that was already in the netbook, and letting the Ubuntu decide how to stop the boot loader and everything.
Just 30 minutes (because I made the mistake of telling the Ubuntu all the music that mattered and documents, without remembering that the netbook I keep a copy of all music and all the literature, but it would have taken much less, I'm sure) and we were testing it.
At first I was not sure what user were, but then I remembered that on the Mac I was the same: the first user to create and with which you start the first session is an administrator, but NO is the root, if I remember correctly, and it is very easy to create another user, for routine use daily, but without administrator privileges to avoid irreparable mistakes committed by ignorance, such as deleting system files. Then
recognized everything, wireless, bluetooth, very easy to configure all
Then started tinkering with the Nautilus and the terminal-bash-shell, and that night I installed a couple of programs (LyX, the reason for nearly netbook , to write novels in progress, and all the material needed to surf the net but owner, Java and Flash abominable but omnipresent).
And I installed from the terminal, which, for the uninitiated, is a black window where you type text in white (as the window of this blog, but in reverse, and also this blog is text window inert, while in the terminal is the heart of Linux in its purest form, an operating system (the set of programs that let your computer do things and interact with humans) unimaginably powerful despite its innocuous appearance: in the Linux kernel there are no icons, or colors, no sound, no cool animations. just plain text in a window . But the hidden power behind that window is reflected in nearly 4 decades of impeccable professional performance (do not you would think that the big computers, banks, missile control, satellite control simulators, air traffic control, etc., are handled with Windows, right?).
There is something magical about typing a line (sudo apt get etc. Etc.) And see how the computer picks up things from the network, assembles, installs things, change its own configuration, and finally create an application where none existed, for to do more, and reports throughout the process of what is being done. It's like the continuous learning process of the human brain ... (Of course, I prefer to download an icon and drag it to a folder, and Mac OS X, but what's under the Mac OS X is a direct cousin of Ubuntu Linux.)
The feeling of robustness, reliability, and stability is unknown transmitting for users of Windows, which almost have been integrated into the noosphere that things are broken alone (Linux servers almost never go out, and its performance does not drop anything at all), that every so often you have to reboot, things are slow to start and shut down much (9 s in Ubuntu, by the way) ...
Everything points to gradually stop using Windows XP on my netbook ...
keep you informed.
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