Ubuntu Linux 11.04 aims for the casual user

[tripleh]

Originally Posted by Trucker7

OTOH, give a newbie a Windows PC, and in 3 months, they'll have 20 useless programs running at startup, 15 icons in the systray, 7 toolbars in IE, maybe a virus or two, and they'll be complaining about their computer running slow.

ahhaa thanks, that made me laugh, sad but true.

Don't forget that even though they might actually have a pop-up blocker installed, and might even be using Firefox they'll still have pop-up hell too.

In fact I have not had any trouble with 10.10 in virtual environments (about all I work with these days). I haven't seen the new look, but haven't really had a need for ubuntu since I don't use gns3 anymore. Hmm curious to see anyway

[swirling_vortex]

Originally Posted by gramirez2012

It's interesting, because every computer I've tried this latest version on said Unity is incompatible with the hardware.

That's probably because you don't have a good 3D driver enabled. You can boot into classic mode, open up the Restricted Drivers program and install them. Otherwise, you can install unity-2d.

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by wrcousert

Did you try VM Ware? I thought about it, but the RAM requirements are a bit high.

i tried that or something similar, but it still wouldn't work.


on my windows PC, the tether program installs a modem driver and shows up in network connections. this is something you apparently cannot accomplish through a virtual machine session.