A surprising Ubuntu Linux review

This review of Ubuntu Gimpy Goanna, Jolly Jacaranda (or whatever they call it) is quite surprising.

Is it surprising that the author’s girlfriend has trouble installing the (closed-source and obviously evil) Flash plugin? No, not a surprise there.

How about when she had trouble when the screen resolution changed, making the screen too small to display the “change resolution” dialogue box? Nope. I can understand why an operating system changes resolutions without first asking the user if they’re sure it’s a good idea (even Windows NT does this!).

Any surprises that she had trouble with Linux’s filesystem and unhelpfully-named folders? Not really.

I wasn’t even surprised that she wasn’t tasked with installing the operating system by herself. I mean, isn’t Linux ready for mainstream desktop use? Isn’t it easy to install and upgrade?

No, for me the surprising bit was that an advocate of using Linux on the desktop has a girlfriend. Blow me down!

(Yeah, I know, total cheap shot…)