Ubuntu may be one of the easiest-to-use Linux distro’s. But it doesn’t mean you don’t need to know what your doing.

Same goes for all computers.

My observations are at

http://technophilesdiary.wordpress.com/

@Phil: I have absolutely no idea what an FUD is and I’m too lazy to google it.

@Maternitus: I also enjoy the freedom of Linux. There are a lot of aspects to it that I wish were more common in other operating systems!
I will definitely give Mandriva a try at some point.

@John Bujcack: Thanks for the comment It means a lot, and if at least one person understands the humour of it all, then I’m happy. I just want to give my honest experiences, but I also don’t want to take it all too seriously!

This week is over, but I do plan on continuing my posts about my Linux experiences, maybe with a post every week or two instead of every day.

My final day of the week is up, and you can read it if you like!
http://www.zmogo.com/gear/the-new-year-linux-resolution-day-7-the-stunning-conclusion/

I don’t know where he comes from but if I asked anyone how you would install windows or any other operating system they would put in the CD and let it do its thing, which is installing it on the hard drive.. not going out and buying and external drive and installing it on that.

..next post – “Windows 7 beta review”

Installed normally on an internal hard drive of course..

Don’t be deterred by the negative responses posted here. They do NOT represent the typical Linux user, they just think they do. Your series will do more to promote Linux and encourage new users than any of the negative responses ever will.

I have been a Mandriva user for 6.5 years (Mandrivausers.org member for the past 6 years),totally Windows free for the past 4 years. I only started using computers 7.5 years ago.

I hope you will consider continuing to post your adventures with Linux long after this one week. I too have had quite a Linux adventure but there is no way that I could write it so entertainingly and self-effacingly.

Cheers. John (74 years young)

Any way, because of my studies I needed Windows, so with a prowling lip I turned my back on Linux. Somewhat 6 years ago I got so tired of all the crashes, bluescreens and so on, that I adviced a friend of me, who is an avid Linux user (and runs the OS on pretty much everything digital he owns). He gave me a neat 5 cd set with Fedora, helped me with the installation and explained everything he did. Like a live forum?

Since then I actually do the things that I left Linux for, which proofs to me that it was evolving. Because of curiousity I also tried Ubuntu and stuck with it for 3 years, just because I liked it. And now it is Mandriva and I probably will stuck with that for a few years and see what’s okay for me then.

I like that freedom.

Nice piece, but I have comment about it, though. I can see you use a Mac and a Win-PC, because your week has six days. Mine has seven.

Greetings and thanks for the fun!
Maternitus

Nobody is going to install an OS on an external drive like that (even though some Linux distros offer you a USB key version). Thats what someone with just enough knowledge to know they will overwrite their OS but not enough experience to know about partitions would do. Either a person will just want to write over their OS because they don’t want it and don’t know any other way to do it, or they will know what they are doing and would have used Wubi in the first place. You fall in between.

All in all this is just another FUD post of someone doing something ridiculous that wouldn’t work with ANY OS so they can write a blog about Linux not being user friendly. I’m simply not going to believe you are that dumb. Let people try and decide whether they like Linux for themselves instead of writing FUD articles. And even with the FUD its still no worse than Windows problems such as the one my coworker just had with installing XP on a Dell laptop but neither the Dell drivers or manufacturer drivers would get his internal wireless chipset to work. He ended up buying a card to use. Let this happen with Linux and though and its worthy of an entire blog article.

It makes _not_ using the documentation a lot easier.

I can’t take anyone seriously who doesn’t want to read and tries to make his/her primary computer a dual boot.