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Rather nice it is.

Upgraded last night (yeah I know slow off the mark) and while I liked 8.04 (my previous distro) 10.04 seems much better.

Anyhow as a test I connected into the office windows network and thought I'd add a network printer as I've just read that Linux drivers are now available for it.

Now under windows its a bit of a task you need the ip address, subnet mask and have to manually tell the drivers what extras are fitted basically its a 10 minute job to get it all configures properly, much longer the 1st time you do it.

However Ubuntu was rather more seamless kind of like this.

I went to add a network printer
It said, what that one?
I said yes.
It said OK hang on a moment while I just grab the drivers for you, right done that for you buddy I see you went for the duplex unit wise choice shall we print a test page?
 
I had a go with Linux Mint recently, basically Ubuntu with a different front end and some restricted codecs etc. already installed. Very impressed, I like Ubuntu but Mint was just that little bit better. Give it a try sometime.
 
I upgraded a few months back.

Agreed it is rather nice. Things just work that little bit more smoothly this time around.

One thing I do like about linux. Every so often you log in and it tells you a shiny new version is available, just click here. With my mac it tells me a shiny new version is available, just go get your credit card.
 
Hawkeye said:
And the next shiny new version is out in 14 days time. Ubuntu 10.10 released on 10.10
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I'm writing this in 10.10 and very happy with it! It's great when stuff works out of the box, and you don't need to worry about anti-virus and the gradual slowdown of your machine (which seems inevitable in Windows).
Free is a good price but you do get more than your money's worth!

Also, I had Mint 7 XFCE on my old laptop and it ran like a dream - this has 768MB RAM and a 1.2GHz processor. It convinced me full-blown GNOME might run nearly as well, and it does.

sudo apt-get double-edge-blades?
 
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