These last four or five days it have been Kubuntu days for me. For different reasons, I’ve have installed or upgraded Kubuntu in four PCs and used the Kubuntu Live CD to configure a graphic card of a computer with debian sarge installed.
Installing Kubuntu from scratch is a great sensation. It’s fast and easy most of the times. My parents had at home a debian, then switched to Kubuntu Breezy and, during this weekend, I’ve changed their old PC by a newer one with Kubuntu Gutsy on it. They are happy because it was easy to configure the HP Laserjet 1018 (with breezy it was a nightmare for me). Everything works fine with no extra configurations. My mother not just use it, also promote it, which is something I’ve never expected. My father is getting into it, not 100% convinced yet
I also took a friend’s PC and changed her old unupdated Kubuntu Dapper by a brand new Kubuntu Gutsy. After installation, everything worked fine, specially her usb-wifi stick, something she could not get working with the old distro.
I upgraded my office’s PC from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy with the distribution upgrade tool. Everything worked fine except cups. I didn’t have a backup copy of the configuration archive. Does anybody knows if it does one before changing cups by the new packet?
I also installed a Kubuntu in a quite old computer after adding some RAM memory (it has xubuntu). Now it has dual boot. It works quiet well although xubuntu works faster.
So, what is the point? It is that, for non technical users, as I am, Kubuntu have reached a point where I’m able to do with linux everything I used to be able to do in windows, install it, make partitions, configure a network, install apps, share printers and directories, configure wifi devices, create users, etc. very easily. In fact, I can do more things now that I could in windows.
We can improve a lot though, but it has been a confirmation of what I already knew (we all know). With linux I’m more productive, even in tedious actions like the ones I’ve done these days.
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