Comments on: Ubuntu ready for the average user? http://blog.adambard.com/2008/04/21/ubuntu-ready-for-the-average-user/ Web Design, Freelancing, and other fun stuff. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: My Open-Source Web Development Workflow — Post — On The Scene http://blog.adambard.com/2008/04/21/ubuntu-ready-for-the-average-user/#comment-310 My Open-Source Web Development Workflow — Post — On The Scene Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:07:48 +0000 http://blog.adambard.com/2008/04/21/ubuntu-ready-for-the-average-user/#comment-310 [...] this laptop, this one right here, I use Ubuntu Hardy Heron (as I’ve mentioned before).  Linux is an excellent environment for setting up sandbox servers using lampp, django, ruby on [...] […] this laptop, this one right here, I use Ubuntu Hardy Heron (as I’ve mentioned before).  Linux is an excellent environment for setting up sandbox servers using lampp, django, ruby on […]

]]> By: Housebaked http://blog.adambard.com/2008/04/21/ubuntu-ready-for-the-average-user/#comment-150 Housebaked Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:12:15 +0000 http://blog.adambard.com/2008/04/21/ubuntu-ready-for-the-average-user/#comment-150 Man you couldn't have summed it up more perfectly! I like the "The solution is to get Ubuntu for your kids and grandma, so that in ten or twenty years you’ll have a bunch of Linux users for whom switching to Windows just isn’t worth the effort." I am an avid Linux user myself, started with Ubuntu for about a year and then switched to Debian and have been using it ever since (almost 3 years into Linux now). I too feel so uncomfortable when I'm on Windows... it's like I don't know what's going on, quite incredible really. Man you couldn’t have summed it up more perfectly!

I like the “The solution is to get Ubuntu for your kids and grandma, so that in ten or twenty years you’ll have a bunch of Linux users for whom switching to Windows just isn’t worth the effort.”

I am an avid Linux user myself, started with Ubuntu for about a year and then switched to Debian and have been using it ever since (almost 3 years into Linux now). I too feel so uncomfortable when I’m on Windows… it’s like I don’t know what’s going on, quite incredible really.

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