Merry Ubuntu 12.10 Christmas

Had a old PC where I could not get windows re-installed on. It complained about the pci.sys and I could not go around it. The windows 8 installation I had on it was only beta so I needed a new approach... Have had Linux dists before but they seemed to require a whole lot to get the hardware to work. But I thought I should get it a try. Since I have played with Raspberry Pi I was familar with Debian so I tried it. But it failed to also install. Then I thought that maybe Ubuntu would be worth to try. It's based on Debian though so I was not too confident that it would work. But see and behold! It was very easy.
I downloaded this to a windows machine:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/
Created a memory stick with the help of the application. Ubuntu is faaaaaar down in the list. Then I booted on the stick and after a restart it was completly installed, with USB, WiFi, Bluetooth ready and available!

Two small tips. Always when looking for data on google about Ubuntu it's worth to add also the release eg. Terminal Ubuntu 12.10. There is so big difference between the versions. So how do you open the Terminal in Ubuntu 12.10? Ctrl+Alt+T was the answer. Maybe in Ubuntu 12.11 there will be a desktop app for it. It's Christmas time so I can always wish for it.

They state that Ubuntu is for human beings and I start to feel that all the discussions about Linux on the desktops is maybe old... Linux is in the laptops!


http://skyisgrey.org/blog/ubuntu-desktop-course.html