Over the weekend I downloaded and burnt the ubuntu install CD on a new "spare" laptop, and it was 100% working within an hour - no fiddly linux stuff for a newbie like me to have to figure out.
Now i have 2 issues to figure out:
- 1. Need to run security updates, not sure how
- 2. Need to figure out how to repartition the hdd as I got the sizes wrong during the install.
But from one afternoon of playing, I am really impressed at the "out of the box"-ness - maybe i just got lucky tho...
-- Mike
Hey Mike, congrats and well done!
1 - theres an icon in the upper right corner that looks like on orange square thingy...double click it, it will launch the updater, if you need any updates they will be there
2 - to repartition the HD, you'll probably need to download and burn another CD, I like something called Gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Once you boot from that CD, its as simple as dragging the partitions to the sizes you want and letting Gparted do its thing. Your data should be preserved.
Again, way to go!