Mum tries out Ubuntu 12.10 (2012)
Mum tries out Ubuntu 12.10 (2012) is the second episode of Season 1 in the OSFirstTimer series.
Description[edit | edit source]
Are you a windows user? Thinking of updating to Windows 8? Well... think again! A mother who loves windows xp tried windows 8 and hated it (link below) yet without any knowledge of Linux operating systems she tried Ubuntu 12.10 and loved it! It was better looking, simpler to use and much more appealing overall.
OS Info[edit | edit source]
Ubuntu 12.10 is a free operating system that is based off the Linux kernel. It is the most popular Linux distribution ever (as of 2012). It uses the Unity desktop environment and is a Debian-based distribution. The main disadvantage of this operating system is compatibility, as to run Windows applications, you will need a third-party application called Wine, however, some Windows apps may not work with Wine.
Tasks[edit | edit source]
- Change your desktop background
- Visit the Gmail website
- Write and save a text document
- Quit Firefox
- Calculate 680 x 45
- Find where your downloaded applications are stored
- Turn off your computer
Diana's Review[edit | edit source]
- She said "Well let's hope it's better than Windows 8 because Windows 8 is crap." as Ubuntu was the second OS she tried after her disastrous first experience with Windows 8.
- She thought this OS was logical, simple and easy to navigate, she liked everything about it apart from the hiding of the close, maximize and minimize buttons at the top of the bar when a window is maximized.
- She preferred Ubuntu over Windows 8 saying that she thought it looked modern, bringing up that she thought Windows 8 looked like an OS from the 90s.
- She was even willing to pay for Ubuntu (If it was a paid product) providing that compatibility wasn't an issue.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- This video had a lot of issues as there were information provided by Philip is wrong, even the way he pronounced Ubuntu (Philip pronounced it as "Abanchoo"). Philip claimed that a converter was required for text documents and that the conversion took 10 seconds as opposed to it being instant and there not even being a converter. It was after this video that Philip would research the OS in more depth before getting Diana to test it.
- It is the first Linux-based distribution that Diana tried out.