Yep, I agree. After upgrading my edgy box to feisty, I was curious at how a clean install would go, and did one on a drive with two existing partitions, one windows, and the other, a previous install of dapper.
Feisty asked me would I like to resize the linux partition and install into the space created, I went with that and it duly did its magic and installed....though it is arguable how useful the amount of space it freed for itself is for a linux install, but it did work, well. Even asked me if I wanted to import credentials from the dapper install and favorites etc from the windows partition....outstanding. On reboot, the existing partitions were available by a click, mounting a remote windows drive, a click. Setting up to and printing to my network laser, a doddle. Couldn't have been easier in fact, still, there are some foibles but in general, great. Since then, I upgraded a few times (including a new kernel) and no issues. What was an issue, nvidia drivers and that seemed to be a weirdity, usual process simply didn't work, but I suspect it was me rather than feisty as installing 'automatrix' and using it to install the nvidia drivers worked a treat. I would recommend automatix for those using ubuntu, it isn't perfect but it does make life simple. http://www.getautomatix.com/ Once the nvidia drivers were installed, I enabled the whizzy desktop effects, as swish as those available in Apple's to be released Leopard. As I haven't played with Vista, I can't compare to it. Since then I have installed a Cisco VPN client and a Citrix client, and as usual (OK, one has to know a few minor points for both, like patching the Cisco installer) both perform very well once setup. In short, feisty is rather good. Yes, it has some flakeyness and annoyances, but so far, I haven't found any show stoppers. My only gripe is that it appears that Ubuntu shipped feisty a little early and to install on my macBoook, requires using the alternate CD and doing some ATI driver installs prior to doing the main install as such. I look forward to the next version of the feisty installer cd. One thing I do like about ubuntu and that I think endears it to at least some people, is the single disc install which contains most of the needed everyday apps. Cheers L Kerry Mayes wrote: > Whereas I have been using Ubuntu for a few months had none of those issues. > > Your computers were obviously used to Mepis and got upset at changing! > > Multimedia stuff was a bit fiddly under Edgy, but "just works" under > Feisty. > > Samba has worked well for me under both edgy and feisty, you can > browse the network easier than windows - including the work network > which requires a different password. > > CUPS works fine for the printers here and at home. > > The forums are full of people asking the same question over and over - > then having an argument about it. > > On 06/06/07, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thought that I would give Ubuntu and Kubuntu a serious chance as >> desktops >> for my family - it seemed to be a bit "prettier" than Mepis, and some >> things >> were more up to date. >> >> After 3 weeks we are back to Mepis and happy. >> >> Multimedia stuff mostly works without any extra downloads or fiddling. >> Same applies to NVidia. >> >> Samba sharing is so easy with Mepis and KDE (just right click on the >> folder >> you want to share and follow your nose) >> >> No problems with Mepis printing to LPD queue. Ubuntu / Kubuntu would >> print >> only one file but for printing a second we needed to restart - this >> happened >> on 3 different pc's. >> >> Ubuntu / Kubuntu Kernel update caused heaps of problems including >> failure to >> boot. There is a thread about this (but still no fix) on Ubuntu forums >> which >> is, at last look, at least 48 pages long. >> >> Rob >> >
