It's quirky enough to require training - not only on the operating system, but on Oracle OpenOffice (which has its own baggage) - and even with that users could get into trouble pretty easily. It almost goes without saying that I wouldn't unleash Ubuntu on a bunch of unsuspecting users. Remember, though, that the point of my mini-experiment was to compare Ubuntu and Chrome OS as business solutions. Despite the rough edges, I found myself liking the latest iteration of the product a lot. Ubuntu is a living, breathing product of its community, so of course it's in constant flux. I could go on, from the notorious difficulty of installing new applications to broken links all over the online documentation, but none of this was unexpected. Many people, apparently, had reverted to version 10.04. Then I started wading into the Ubuntu forums, where, along with hashing over Evolution troubleshooting, a number of people in the Ubuntu community didn't seem to like 10.10 very much at all. Oops! "Unknown error." I checked the documentation for Evolution and it wasn't much help. Supposedly, if you chose Microsoft Exchange as the server type, all you needed to do was enter the username, OWA server URL, and password. I hate Outlook Web Access, so I was looking forward to a nice little email client, which by all accounts Evolution was. (Only later did I discover that available wireless networks are displayed in a separate utility called Network Manager.) I needed to know the SSID name and enter it along with the security info: done. But hmm, no "view available wireless networks" list presented itself. I looked in Applications, found the Network Connections utility, and fired it up. Now, how do I connect to Wi-Fi? In terms of hardware compatibility, this would be the acid test. At last, an appropriate operating system for the hardware. My first impression post-installation: This isn't just usable, it's darn quick. Its wimpy little Atom processor was already choking to death on XP. What did I have to lose? I wasn't going to upgrade the little sucker to Windows 7. After some hesitation - blam! - I blew away Windows XP.
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