Once you get the right DISKS,
setting up Ubuntu is actually not too hard.
I had to dredge out some of my old command line shit. There are a lot of things to reccomend UNIX, and user friendliness is not one of them. It’s as if 103 years after marconi won the Nobel Prize, you were still using a telegraph key to communicate. Still, sometimes simple is best, and I’m a bit amazed that I still remember some of those old commands.
Unix is very user friendly.
It’s just a bit particular about who its friends are.
I’m currently switching between the Ubuntu XFCE desktop and LXDE desktop as I hate Unity. The wife is still on Ubuntu 11.10 and the Ubuntu Classic desktop. Sadly, that goes away with 12.04.
My laptop, mini laptop and HTPC are all Ubuntu as well.
But my infrastructure systems are mostly some flavor of BSD. Because Linux is for people that hate Windows. BSD is for people that love Unix.
Everyday there are still people using a telegraph key to communicate, some of us with radios we built ourselves, from scratch, from a pile of old parts, from memory, without a schematic.(ok, most of those only worked a couple of times, but I still use some other radios for code, heh).
Independence Day got that bit about Ham radio correct, when nothing else will get through, CW does. Maybe Unix is the CW of OS-es, or CW is the Unix of radio modes, I dunno.
“Everyday there are still people using a telegraph key to communicate,”
Yes, and I still shave with a straight razor, and I like trucks older than 1940, and rifles of the same vintage. Don’t mean that Ubuntu couldn’t make this a little less of a pain in the ass.
Don’t mean that Ubuntu couldn’t make this a little less of a pain in the ass.
Ha! You obviously don’t quite get who Ubuntu is made for. Approximation: “if u want easy y dont u go WINDOZE lo$3r lololll”
I am kidding.
pitiably, theyre not.
I’ve never used Ubuntu. I run CentOS for most of what I do with unix, but my home network is Windows Server 2008 R2.
And I hasten to add that I run Windows at home because that’s what I deal with 95% of the time at work.
Yeah, I would have used Win server but it’s not- you know- free.
I have dabbled with Linux often over the years and have it set up, Ubuntu’s latest version on the old Sony Viao the resides in my reloading cabinet…I like it!!
Family won’t touch it so Winders on all the others..
Not hard to use and I like tinkering with it.