I’ve been in meetings the past two days and so far my experience of running ubuntu on my laptop is that people are certainly curious about it. System76 sells hardware exclusively powered by ubuntu, including some nice looking minis.

Do I recommend that people switch to a linux distro? No. I’d suggest that everyone explore some of the stuff that’s available and if you’re new to linux then ubuntu is the one to try.

There’s a lingering perception that linux is painful. During our meetings someone was explaining their wife’s experience with her new apple notebook and the fact that she plugged in her camera and her pictures were automatically imported etc. The next comment was something along the line of “you should see how painful it is in linux, mounting drives and crap”. Ahhh, that’s just not true anymore.

Later during the meeting I plugged Jaimie’s memory card into my laptop and instantly had a popup stating something like ‘there appears to be a pictures on this memory card, import?’

If you haven’t tried linux on the desktop in a while then just give it a try, things have improved. Is it better than windows, apple, etc? No, they’re all unique and there’s reasons to use each.

My offer….If you live near me then I’ll happily burn you a ubuntu live cd to give it a try. Or even simpler, download and burn one yourself. Or get free cd‘s shipped to you.

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