installing Ubuntu on netbook

[WoodPeckr]

Be careful in this case, I have read several places that Ubuntu does not work with the Acer Aspire One wireless adapter.

Good point!

You have to do your homework since there are ~100 flavors of Linux out there and each does things a little differently. This is both a + & - for Linux since PCs use so many different hardware configs.

 

[sailorsix]

but thanks for all of your help.
It didn't kill me so I guess that I am a better person now...who missed most of Sunday!

Next free weekend perhaps I will resurrect my old MDG Celeron with Linux.

 

[The Options Menu]

I found the Ubuntu Forums that are just as helpful as this TERB tech forum.

I'm a degenerate old (30ish) Linux fart who Debian / KDE and the Ubuntu forums actually make Ubuntu for new users. As WoodPeckr said, different is just different. I'm somebody that runs Linux, has run it for a very long time, and has periodically administered Linux and commercial UNIXes, after you get used to the features that all of the big Linux Distros have you'll find every other system you touch to be deeply frustrating in some major way... (I've been in Solaris Land of late and they have some 'nice stuff' but man, there are some 'normal user' gaps there as well, and Windows just makes me bang my head and scream...)

I might be a free (as in freedom) software fanatic, but I'm largely a post partisan free software fanatic. Eg, I don't care what (major) distro, desktop, or text editor you use but once you understand the broad lay of the land in a reasonably vanilla Linux it's hard to use anything else.