[ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:51 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody else been following this series? What are your thoughts?
> 
> I've been reading some of it. I think he makes a number of a good points
> but he also has the tendency to assume things will be complicated and
> therefore goes for the complicated option first. The way he initially
> installed WINE or the way he manually created a separate partition under
> Windows in order to install Ubuntu side by side is another.
> 
> It may be worth promoting the software centre more and position it as
> being similar to an 'app store'. Linux users have been used to this for
> ages so don't think about it anymore but for the larger population the
> concept of the app store is new and they don't expect a desktop OS to
> behave that way.
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 
> 

+1

Personally, when I give help to people these days, which requires the
installation of a new package, I always point them to Ubuntu Software
Centre, if I know it is there.  

I haven't used Synaptic now for ages.  If USC hasn't got it, I go
straight for apt-get. 

The only thing I would like in USC is a more verbose mode to show what
is happening during installation - maybe something like the download and
console display in Update Manager.

Tony