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I brought my eldest son a netbook for his birthday ( early present ) a Samsung N150 dual booted W7 starter and 11.04 <br>W7 just to do updates and AV install took 6hrs , I was not impressed , then installed 11.04 took all of 30minutes , My son used the netbook for 2 days then told me to get rid of W7 <img style="border-style: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;" alt="Open-mouth smile" title="Open-mouth smile" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/open_mouthed_smile.gif" height="19" width="19"> As he's 14 this month I told him to do the install himself ,, with a little help from me he did ,, now he's a happy bunny.<br>He has used 11.04 everyday since and even though I showed him how to boot into Gnome he hasnt done so he seems to like Unity ,, He's been using Ubuntu since last summer on a dual boot Laptop W7 and 10.04 Edubuntu and prefers Linux more than Windows.<br>Ive been using Ubuntu since 9.10 ( still a noob) now on Laptop 10.04 and netbook 10.10 , Been playing around with Natty for the past few weeks as a Live CD and Im impressed at how much better it is now than it was in 10.10 NBR ,, Im going to do a full install this weekend <img style="border-style: none; vertical-align: text-bottom;" alt="Open-mouth smile" title="Open-mouth smile" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/open_mouthed_smile.gif" height="19" width="19"><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:03:49 +0100<br>From: c.m.lynch87@gmail.com<br>To: newark@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [Newark] Ubuntu Natty / Unity<br><br>In similar fashion I just pushed a box upto latest Ubuntu for a family member. The lad having had some experience with GNOME but isn't a techie, took a dislike to it. He seems alot happier with GNOME3 and the Shell.<BR>
Personally I quite like the look of it. Seems to have a lot in common with both Shell and MacOS X. I didn't get to have a good play with it because the lad wanted Shell but I'm open to putting it on a box myself to take a look.<BR>
I'm always on the lookout for new UX/UI. Having had KDE4, Shell, E17, blackbox, plan9 and finally Haiku on a dual-boot. Its always fun trying out the new workflows.<BR>
On a random note, anyone tried etoilé? I haven't managed to get it to build yet.. :(<BR>
Craig<BR>
<div class="ecxgmail_quote">On May 9, 2011 4:55 PM, "Peter Adams" <<a href="mailto:praest76@gmail.com">praest76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Folks,<br>> <br>> So what's the general opinion here on Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity? I have<br>
> Ubuntu installed on the girlfriend's netbook which I keep up with the<br>> latest to test. So far I've found Unity quite nice on a small netbook<br>> aimed at non-tech users. Still haven't convinced her of it's merits<br>
> over the Windows 7 it dual-boots but Windows related frustrations are<br>> helping push her over.<br>> <br>> While most Linux users I know are fairly down on Unity I'm finding it<br>> a more simple and user-friendly experience and can see where Canonical<br>
> is going with it; Linux for the non-geek.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Peter<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Newark mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Newark@mailman.lug.org.uk">Newark@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
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