First I'm going to through out my dislikes. Things that just have not gone right.
- Tweetdeck will not run. I get an error that says that I have one of the few machines that Air does not like, and they are working with Adobe on it. This could have more to do with the machine than Ubuntu, but I'm sure it would work under that commercial operating system.
- It has locked up on us three times now. Seems to be something with X. The computer keeps running, and at least once I was able to recover without rebooting. May have something to do with having multiple people logged on at the same time.
- Lost the sound a couple of times. Have not figured this one out. Playing around with the sound settings has gotten it back. This also may have something to do with multiple logins. At least once, I've gotten sound back by switching to another user and turning up the sound on that login.
- Wireless network was not setup right out of the box. It did not work at all under OpenSolaris, so it's not something I can't do without in the short term, but I would really like to get working.
Successes or just things I've liked.
- Installing VirtualBox was easy and straight forward and ran the Windows images I've created under OpenSolaris just fine. This was probably my biggest worry as I did not want to have to redo this up just now. I've got some work to do in those images starting next week.
- Gnucash installed directly and reads the gnucash file from the old system.
- Guest user allows my daughter to access Facebook, etc while I'm on without messing with whatever I'm working on.
- Switching allows other family members to access there side, once again without disturbing whatever I'm working on.
- My wife plugged the digital camera in, in her word's "something for photos turned on when I hooked up the camera. I don't know what I did exactly, but I got the pictures posted". That's what I'm looking for in a family computer. Yes Mac OS X has a better experience there, but I don't currently have a Mac, now do I?
- Went to set up the printer, only to find that Ubuntu had done it already, without even telling me or better yet asking me any questions about it.
- Can finally use Chrome natively at home. Although it's not nearly as polished as the Windows version.
I installed Java and Netbeans, but have not had much of a chance to work with them. That will change this week as I have to update an application for doing Knights Marshal reports. MySql seems to have installed fine, but same issue.
I installed Netbeans from the download from Sun. Java I installed from Ubuntu's Software Center. I was a little unhappy is was a minor version behind, but not enough to do a manual install.
At this point, I need an operating system that I can use without having to work with it too much. Like the printer issue. It took me days to finally get enough information together to install it the first time on OpenSolaris and hours on FreeBSD. I like the research and like geeking around with the system, but don't have the time right now. I need something that is going to cause me less problems. And, in case someone brings it up, I always have problems with Windows. My work machine runs mostly fine because the IT staff there has it locked down. I don't want to run like that here. Yes a Mac would be great. Let me know when you can send one over. Otherwise, I will have to wait until I can afford one again.
Right now it's too early to know if this will be a long term success, but short time certainly has been.
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