[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[Paul Lee]

Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 17:55 +0000, Sarah Lemarié wrote:
>>> The mother says - "Oh look - a Linux penguin. My brother is into Linux".
>> How about when the mother says 'Oh I use Linux!' ? :)
>>
>> That's what I'm after!
>>
>> Sarah.
> 
> That's exactly what happened to me the other day - I took out my
> Ubuntu-loaded laptop on the train and fired it up.  The woman next to me
> asked "Do you prefer Gnome or kde?".  I was stunned!
> 
> C.
> 

XFCE or Fluxbox of course! ;o)

Seriously, have been wiping a few Windows XP installations with Xubuntu 
  which runs sweet, on old Compaq Armada's and Toshiba Satellite's (well 
a bit of tweaking xorg.conf in the case of the latter to get a full 
screen display).

Ubuntu "just works" out of the box. I was amazed I could connect 
effortlessly to wireless networks (seems any generic USB stick works) or 
3G Orange Mobile Broadband via my phone. Even my webcams work!

Paul
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