gael33

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As a relative newbie and techno ludite I can only go of my own seemingly ignorant experience.
I loaded Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Kaola) on to my elderly (6 Years) PC after wiping the hdd clean. The install was easy and the instructions simple to follow, even for me.
Getting on line wirelessly was simplicity itself.
Everything appears to be working fine, and I've even reinstalled all my little favourite programs that I used previously. I have since used Bluetooth and that works perfectly ... as opposed to Ubuntu 8.10 where Bluetooth never functioned ... perhaps due to my inexperience and inability to find a solution to the problem. Having said that, I did have teething trouble with USB ports and sockets. The Firefox browser (3.5) kept freezing until I swapped the USB's around and then the whole thing settled down and it's been okay now for the last 3 days (touch wood). Anyway, my experience with Karmic Kaola has been thus far satisfactory ... lets hope it stays that way.

thelastquincy

I messed around with my old distro so I messed up a few things like my screen. It wasn't full screen and when I updated 9.10 fixed that and now I have full screen again. So it's pretty amazing..Love it

dudeman41465

Another excellent release of Ubuntu. I love it, the only issue I found is that the new version of Network-Manager has broken wireless for lots of people. To circumvent this I installed wicd which then broke the Ubuntu One for a little while. I managed to get it all working eventually, but a little bit of a pain at first.

The OS itself though is rock solid, customizable, and just looks good. For anybody who isn't familiar with Linux at all I highly recommend any version of Ubuntu Linux.