Originally Posted By: Dignan
Originally Posted By: mlord
Just put Ubuntu onto the beast, and tell them it's the latest thing (which it is, actually). They'll be happy.

I just cannot agree that Ubuntu is ready for the average consumer.

Definitely not the install process, improved though it is, I still have two machines that it the graphical installer won't even boot on. Both of them had the same problem with 8.04 and still have the same problem with 9.04

Also, I was stunned to find that 9.04 still won't install and boot cleanly under Virtual PC without some tweaking. Surely that has to be a high priority to fix ? They must be losing out on so many potential switcher whose first experience when trying it out as a virtual machine crashes and burns at the first hurdle.
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