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   From: "Laszlo Lebrun"    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:40:46 +0100   
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   Peter wrote:   
   > Chris Game  wrote   
   >   
   >>> Microsoft's Vista presents Ubuntu with a huge opportunity to push   
   >>> istelf as the upgrade path from Windows XP.   
   >>   
   >> Unfortunately Ubuntu is no where near good enough for that.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately you are right. I looked at it for a few days.   
   > Installing software can be a nightmare for the not so experienced   
   > users, particularly if it does not come as a debian package. >   
      
   Installing software is mostly a nightmare for users who got wrong   
   advice.   
   If it's not in availabe as one of the 20.000 available debian packages   
   you'd better not even try as an Ubuntu rookie freshly arriving  from   
   Redmont.   
      
   The most common problem is that even if a debian pack exist, a lot of   
   good intended nice guys will suggest you to tweak some .conf file,   
   when they don't suggest a completely inadequate .rpm pack or to   
   extract a .tar and do all the stuff manually.   
      
   > Also the fact that it does not know a root user as such is not   
   > necessarily an advantage.   
      
   Why?   
      
      
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