My brother in law was really impressed with its first contact with Linux (NOT), especially when I showed him, after the above disaster, the package manager (Synaptic), Boy what a bloated user unfriendly GUI, tried to explain the working but got only glazed looks back. Mp3, Audio CD and DVD didn’t work either and installation of it is a lot harder then on Fedora, google on Ubuntu and multimedia and try it, I failed too manage too get Totem too show DVD’s. Now I’m in a rant mode, couldn’t even demonstrate the USB key automounting with HAL/GVM with Ubuntu (none of the three and a Sony camera, all of them no problem on my Gentoo machine at home with the same hardware configuration). No-way in Ubuntu, couldn’t even got spelling checker working with Dutch on Ubuntu after downloading it with OOo itself. Add actually caring about no-english people to the list of Fedora firsts, like language switching Open-Office.
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