Re:Install Ubuntu (Score 0)

You are correct. Most people start computing with windows. If you have 2 groups of people with no computer knowledge or experience and give one group computer with any linux distro and other windoze you will see that group of linux newbies produce much less problems and also will annoy you with 'how can I....' questions. It seems that linux infrastructure is far more logical that new learners may solve their problems. With windoze there are less 'logical problems'. But in linux 'problems are logical' :).

My sister has no experience with linux. One day i installed pardus (a turkish distro) but after installation i installed an additional hdd. So when grub tries to load pardus it gives error. So in every startup by pressing 'e' i correct the true hdd number (yes for 5 days I was lazy enough to edit menu.lst :)). One morning my sister phoned me and asked why she cant start windows (you have to correct the xp drive also). She only does IE and msn (and move mouse and click left mousebutton (and gives clicks 'yes' when a dialouge appears (she says that when she clicks yes dialouge annoys you less))). She edited (manage to enter edit mode in grub) and corrected the xp partition (I did not remember the drive letters) and started windoze by phone less than 2 min. It was a small step for mankind but a HUUUUUUUUGGEEEEEE step for her.

I would rather die than making her use 'cmd' in windoze. Because 2-3 times I had to remote assist her (with tightvnc of course) and I couldnt manage her to get ip address with 'cmd - ipconfig' in half an hour!!!!