Installing Ubuntu

[Sean or Mona]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Broughton" <derek at pointerstop.ca>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 11:14
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu


> It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 - what did you expect?  I admit the release notes
> say that should be sufficient, but still...  It's going to drag. How much
> memory do you have?

256 megs.

> So it works on Windows 2000 - you could probably get great performance out
> of a Dapper version of Ubuntu, too.
>
> And no, the menus aren't supposed to work like Windows.

Uh huh.  Well that's something that nobody really told me. How ARE the menus
supposed to work?  It really lost me and in utter defeat I was forced to
crawl back to Windoze again.