Sorry, I can't resist :).<br><br>As a newbie, you should try the main ubuntu system. Kubuntu is reputed to be a little less stable than ubuntu using gnome instead of KDE (also maybe a bit less correctly packaged).<br><br>
I personally recently switched from a Kanotix install to the last Ubuntu Feisty and had no problem, and almost no need to go onto the command line. My computer is a laptop screen is a wide 15,4" (so 1280x800 ideal resolution) and also had not the least problem graphically configuring my wifi...
<br><br>Maybe your machine is too recent to have the driver thoroughly available under linux and that's the cause of your problem. But Linux is definitely usable as a desktop, and as already said recently, you're speaking to people who just uses their linux box to watch dvds, listen music (ogg or even mp3), browsing the internet, coding and so on without compulsorily having to dig into the system config file every single minute... When it works, it just works for a long time.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/4/28, Neil Paisnel <<a href="mailto:neil@paisnel.co.uk">neil@paisnel.co.uk</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hey Peter, not flaming linux , do like it just taking a lot of setting
up. Command line stuff new syntax etc to learn. I can and have been
doing for years before windows with DOS and CPM stuff. With windoze now cmd
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">OK, so the keyboard 'works' but trying to get UK keyboard
setup and stay setup after a re boot seems to be a problem at the moment.
</span></font>UK keyboard layout, compact 77 (75?) or so key unit, still have
not got all the characters working so they give the the same as printed on them.
And for household harmony reasons cant really change to a bigger standard unit.</p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Any how, cheers guys, after a nights sleep, am feeling ready for battle
once more, would like to respond to all points made, but that is then getting
me distracted from the task in hand…getting a linux box setup and trying
a compile to KPA for the GF's machine.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh BTW. Had some joy last night with getting the kubuntu system more
stable. Downlaoded a Feisty distro from a different mirror. Maybe some
I had been using had not been corrupt/bad CD burns, who knows?</span></font></p>
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