Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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I checked out the last live-cd and agree with some of what is said here. A few notes:
- I absolutely agree that brown is not an ideal default color. Blue or possibly other "earth" colors would be better if they want to go that way.
- It didn't detect my internet connection either
- I don't get this sudo thing. I get the impression that this a distribution that is supposed to be used by non-techincal users. When I start some software it just doesn't work without any clear indication why, and apparently I have to figure out on my own by searching the net for random postings that tells me I have to start the console and write sudo passwd or something... Wouldn't it be (much) better to set an administration password at startup/install? I might misunderstood something here. I'm puzzled.
- it didn't mount my harddisk partitions. All the useful stuff you need to do requires easy access to the data you already have, so I am puzzled about that choice as well.
- I don't like the verbose output at startup. It is like having wire sticking out of the box.
Overall, Ubuntu does indeed have a lot of promise... I'll be checking out the coming live cd's