My wife’s review: Her first day after the switch to Ubuntu
June 18, 2010
So I ask myself as I am handed my husband’s Netbook; why am I putting my review on this blog when I could just as easily place the review on my blog. I guess the simple answer would be that this blog is dedicated to all things Linux. With that said I will continue my review on my first days experience with Ubuntu.
With the installation being complete last night I decided to take my laptop into work today to install various software programs that I would need to utilize and thus make my transition into Linux easier. See I have spent the last 13 years using Microsoft and software programs that only run on Microsoft. So this was a difficult decision for me but I was willing to give Linux a shot after hearing all the wonderful things that the Linux community was doing with software and watching my husband be able to accomplish anything he wants within Linux.
As I mentioned I spent today picking and choosing various software programs to install. So far I think that I have picked the best options for video editing, image editing and creating web pages. I hope to be able to start utilizing these programs very soon once my website is up and running (hopefully by this weekend). My laptop starts and shuts down quite easily and much faster than before. However, it is taking me more time to learn that buttons to close out a program are located on the left. I believe that the Linux Outlaws mentioned that this was a big topic of conversation when the change first occurred. I am confident that this will be a small task for me to learn. Aside from that one small adjustment my initial thoughts are all positive. I hope to have more of an opinion (and hopefully all positive) once I start using the operating system more.
