I thought I might share this little story with you about my first kubuntu install.
By no means would I consider myself a novice to *NIX environments and I would say 99% of the time I am living in a BASH shell.
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is an amateur photographer brought over this old DELL P3 600 with 128RAM and asked me if I could install XP and Photoshop on the box. After taking a look at the box I told her it wasn’t worth putting M$ and Photoshop and after she saw the price on what XP and Photoshop cost at a wholesale price it still wasn’t a cost effective solution.
I told her to leave it with me and maybe I could do something with it for her to use. After asking her a few questions I found out all she need to do with the PC was browse the internet and edit photos.... Hmmm, linux does this well.
So I scrounged up another 256MB of RAM for the box and now it was loaded with a whopping 384MB (I haven’t played with anything less than 512 in years). On blind faith and curiosity since ubuntu has been one of the few distros I have yet to install and play with I decided kubuntu was the ticket, KDE was the best choice for taking a windows user and slamming them into a Linux Desktop.
The install was a breeze, I made a the swap partition a little bigger just for gits and shiggles. I set up the user installed GIMP & Firefox, (btw nice job on the package manager... I love it), tweaked out KDE a bit, and ran an update. Wow, done and looks great.
So I call her up and tell her to bring her camera so I can configure it to the PC ( I laugh at this now). She comes over I plug her Canon Rebel into the USB and what do I see.... A Canon Rebel EOS and a icon on the desktop for the camera
I gave her a brief tutorial on GIMP booked marked a few GIMP sites for her, showed her around the desktop and guess what? She loves it and is having not one issue making the transition from M$ to Kubuntu.
Last but not least, that little box can chomp down a filter on a 5MB photo FASTER than my wife's XP box with Photoshop on it. We did the side by side and again 
By no means would I consider myself a novice to *NIX environments and I would say 99% of the time I am living in a BASH shell.
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is an amateur photographer brought over this old DELL P3 600 with 128RAM and asked me if I could install XP and Photoshop on the box. After taking a look at the box I told her it wasn’t worth putting M$ and Photoshop and after she saw the price on what XP and Photoshop cost at a wholesale price it still wasn’t a cost effective solution.
I told her to leave it with me and maybe I could do something with it for her to use. After asking her a few questions I found out all she need to do with the PC was browse the internet and edit photos.... Hmmm, linux does this well.
So I scrounged up another 256MB of RAM for the box and now it was loaded with a whopping 384MB (I haven’t played with anything less than 512 in years). On blind faith and curiosity since ubuntu has been one of the few distros I have yet to install and play with I decided kubuntu was the ticket, KDE was the best choice for taking a windows user and slamming them into a Linux Desktop.
The install was a breeze, I made a the swap partition a little bigger just for gits and shiggles. I set up the user installed GIMP & Firefox, (btw nice job on the package manager... I love it), tweaked out KDE a bit, and ran an update. Wow, done and looks great.
So I call her up and tell her to bring her camera so I can configure it to the PC ( I laugh at this now). She comes over I plug her Canon Rebel into the USB and what do I see.... A Canon Rebel EOS and a icon on the desktop for the camera
I gave her a brief tutorial on GIMP booked marked a few GIMP sites for her, showed her around the desktop and guess what? She loves it and is having not one issue making the transition from M$ to Kubuntu.
Last but not least, that little box can chomp down a filter on a 5MB photo FASTER than my wife's XP box with Photoshop on it. We did the side by side and again
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