It’s nearly been a week since I put Ubuntu on this laptop, and I must say, it has been pretty much a joy. I still wouldn’t call it an operating system for the masses, but once it’s set up and all you wanted to do was your web browsing, email, documents etc., ie. what most of us do, it is very good.
My issues have been with the networking and handling of certain files. The networking is pretty much sorted with the fix mentioned in the last post, not as friendly as in Windows, but it works as expected as long as I know the IP Address of the computer I want to connect to. The handling of files issue, and most are already supported on startup, is when you click on ‘Open With’, you don’t get the familiar list of programs you can use, you have to guess where to find the programs.
It might sound like I am bitching, but I am genuinely impressed with this version of Ubuntu, and ultimately I am having less dramas than I have done with Vista. Everything that I require on my laptop has just worked, except those couple of slight issues mentioned. Actually, the only other thing I haven’t set up is my networked Canon printer. That could be interesting…
Well, my curiousity got to me so I decided to set up my Canon Pixma MP450 printer that is shared from my XP based PC. It turns out that to set up the printer is the same as the Windows Shares, as in I had to enter in the IP Address followed by the printer’s Share name. So mine was smb://192.168.0.10/CanonMP450… There was no driver for this particular printer, but the MP170 driver seems to work well.
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