mresher:
Ubuntu appears cool. I installed it on a laptop that has a hardware bug that causes it to shut down when there is a lot of HD activity. It took several tries where sometimes I'd get all the way to 97% and it would shut down. Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a way to complete a failed installation, so every time it started back at partition and format. No complaints...it still went better for free than most Windows installs I ever did.
Wired net came up perfectly, but not wireless, and sound did not install...though I can't see anything wrong with it and the "Test" function doesn't indicate anything. OTOH, all it does is show a 25% bar and say "Press OK to Finish" so I can't be sure.
Oh well, it's new to me and I suppose I've new tricks to learn...
Once I am familiar I'll install it on the kids computers instead of you-know-what. Most of what they do is browse, anyway and perhaps they'll learn to be non-conformists like the rest of us.
Once my Amiga skills are back from the upcoming A4000 resurrection project, maybe I'll hunt down some 1200's for them. Yeah, that'll do it. They'll go to school, get sat down in front of Windows, look at the teacher and say "WTF is this POS? :pissed: