Ubuntu is Not Ready for Most, Even from Dell | Linux Today

Ubuntu is Not Ready for Most, Even from Dell

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2007

“Dell has seen fit to equip some of its laptop and desktop
offerings with one of the most popular versions (also called
distros) of Linux being Ubuntu. I have said many times before one
of the biggest challenges for Linux is to make things easy to
install and configure. I know plenty of people that think doing so
is hard in Windows and for them it would be impossible in
Linux.

“Andrew Kantor of USA Today says that ‘Linux isn’t just for
geeks’ but I beg to differ for one reason. Near the end of his post
he talks about something that is completely alien to a Windows
user, repositories and dependencies…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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