Installing Ubunutu

Over the Easter weekend I installed Ubuntu and I must say that it was a fairly straight forward and easy process. I am glad and relieved to be honest as I thought Linux will be more problematic simply because many of the hardware drivers a designed for Windows and not Linux. Kudos to the Ubunutu team for all of the hard work in making sure that a lot of the hardware will work with this awesome OS.

My first impression of the Ubunutu system is that the default desktop is awful! Just plain ugly! So my first order of business was to change the background pic to one of my daughter. Once I did that I was very impressed with the layout of my new open-source non-Microsoft operating system.

What I especially like is how clean the desktop is with no "trial" software to be found, unlike the Windows. Sorry to get back on my Microsoft-bashing soap box, but don't you find it ridiculous that you pay a huge amount of money for MS Windows and then spend at least an hour removing all the trail software off of it. I mean really... talk about greed! Anyway, back to Ubuntu.

The next thing that I really like is the layout of the menus... very simple and straight forward. One for Applications, Files, and Settings. It was very easy to find and setup my new operating system to how I wanted things as well as to see what type of applications I could immediately begin playing with. I played a game of "Robots" to break in my newly installed OS and quickly got addicted to it.

I only got to play with my new system for an hour or two before my in-laws rang our doorbell, so I wasn't able to dive deep into the OS but so far the speed is outstanding as it only took about 30 seconds to boot up and the responsiveness of the programs, in my opinion, is far superior to the Microsoft driven computers that I have used in the past.

Two thumbs up. :)