HELP WINDOWS XP

[Chris Jeffries]

I made a suggestion, and I started some work on it. A startup guide for
people trying out Ubuntu and thinking about moving over to it from
Windows. It is still a very immature document, but in the spirit of
community, I have put it on line at
http://www.candm.org.uk/UbuntuStartup.html#

In response to the interesting and informative comments here - thanks
everyone, I want to quote Richard Feynmann, a well known physicist who
worked, on the Manhattan Project. They took delivery of one of the early
computers to help them do the complex math. They put the computer
together, they studied it, they explored what it could do, and, he says 

   'after two months, I realised that we were working on the computer 
       - instead of working on the problem.'

I suspect many of us are like those early pioneers. The computer
fascinates us. We want to add new bits to it, we want to study how it
works and we want to work on the computer rather than the problem. 

Most of the population is not like us. They don't work on the computer,
they work on research, or a letter, or a budget, or listen to music or
watch a film. The fact they use a computer to do it is incidental. As
far as possible, the computer should be invisible to them. It is only a
tool.

And in reply to those who say an approachable system should just be a
starting point, I would just say --- I drive a car. I don't take it
apart every weekend and enjoy examining the engine, and however long I
own and drive it, I am never going to want to.