Less than thirty minutes and a suggestion...
Decided that I needed to wipe Windows XP off my Dell laptop and install linux. My desktop has been running Ubuntu for a while now, so I decided on that...
Downloaded the live CD as a I backed up data. Booted off the live CD and was up and running in less than 30 minutes. Connected to my wifi ap with wep...no problems...still need to figure out how to play DVDs, but I'm in no rush for that.
Then decided to set up pptp so I could connect to my work MS VPN. The client app installed fine, but the GUI frontend just wouldn't install because of some dependencies...spent almost an hour trying to figure out a way around it...no luck...checked the Ubuntu forums and noticed lots of people complaining about the lack of packages to deal with it.
Decided to look at the manual instructions...basically required 4 text files to be created with all the options. Took all of 15 minutes to get up and running.
So I know many folks aren't comfortable with the command-line, but it can definitely make your life easier. The GUI would have been easier the first time, but editing bunch of text files is not that hard, plus its now in a script that I can use anytime. So if you think linux is good now, you'll get a lot more out of it using the command-line.
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