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Mind if I ask you to clarify? I know several people who are your average users (use their PCs as a VCR and Facebook machine) who were convinced to switch to Ub

Mind if I ask you to clarify? I know several people who are your average users (use their PCs as a VCR and Facebook machine) who were convinced to switch to Ubuntu a few years ago and have since been enjoying it much more and have found it more intuitive than Windows. Ubuntu has everything set up out of the box for you, and the feature that everyone seems to like the most is indeed, a Unix advantage: centralized package management. In Windows, they had to hunt down binary installers from all over the web to get some piece of software. Now they just head over to the APT/dpkg frontend (Ubuntu Software Center) and do everything in a flash. How is listening to music and browsing the web harder? You have a graphical DE that makes it point-and-click just like any other OS intended for consumer/mass use. Perhaps you were installing a minimal Ubuntu without X11?

viennacoder 13y ago
I recently installed linux mint 15. It has been a bit problematic. One problem is that it wouldn't shut down. I had to edit the grub2 config to get it to shut down. Also, at one point the sound randomly stopped working. Would only see the dummy output. Had to reboot to get the sound back. So I don't think I fully fixed that issue. I was using xubuntu before, and it's really hard to resize the windows. There's a weirdly small area to click on, which is frustrating. There was also a problem with the right mouse click which needed to be fixed with a config change. It's just buggy, where I would expect things to work.
- girvo 13y ago
  I will say, sound issues I've had with every OS I've run, Windows Mac and Linux. Sound drivers are shit in general. Your other issues are completely valid, though I've not had issues like that for about three years now.
code_duck 13y ago
I switched my mother to Ubuntu 3 or 4 years ago... No more wiping viruses every month. Actually, support calls dwindled from every 2 weeks to basically never. Ubuntu does everything she wants (browser... Email... Watch videos... Download camera photos... View them...) without any problems.

viennacoder 13y ago

I recently installed linux mint 15. It has been a bit problematic. One problem is that it wouldn't shut down. I had to edit the grub2 config to get it to shut down. Also, at one point the sound randomly stopped working. Would only see the dummy output. Had to reboot to get the sound back. So I don't think I fully fixed that issue. I was using xubuntu before, and it's really hard to resize the windows. There's a weirdly small area to click on, which is frustrating. There was also a problem with the right mouse click which needed to be fixed with a config change. It's just buggy, where I would expect things to work.

girvo 13y ago
I will say, sound issues I've had with every OS I've run, Windows Mac and Linux. Sound drivers are shit in general. Your other issues are completely valid, though I've not had issues like that for about three years now.

code_duck 13y ago

I switched my mother to Ubuntu 3 or 4 years ago... No more wiping viruses every month. Actually, support calls dwindled from every 2 weeks to basically never. Ubuntu does everything she wants (browser... Email... Watch videos... Download camera photos... View them...) without any problems.