Don't trust the live CD as a demo of the speed of the OS, though... it's way slower than the real thing.
All my problems with the distro have now been solved, but probably the reason why I have no realy hardware trouble is because the computer it's on has 5 year old hardware.
Still, with all the stuff from NVidia and ATI driver troubles, the graphics and network drivers should really be the two most important things for the installer to worry about... OpenOffice can wait until the computer is started up and connected to the Internet.
I guess a good solution to obvious problems from that would be multiple releases with different configurations of preinstalled software.
Anyway, Ubuntu is no different from Windows in terms of initial bugs. Everyone goes on about how they are going to wait for Vista service pack 1, so it doesn't hurt at all to wait a while for Dapper, either :)
(With the only difference being that Ubuntu doesn't do Service Packs).
All my problems with the distro have now been solved, but probably the reason why I have no realy hardware trouble is because the computer it's on has 5 year old hardware.
Still, with all the stuff from NVidia and ATI driver troubles, the graphics and network drivers should really be the two most important things for the installer to worry about... OpenOffice can wait until the computer is started up and connected to the Internet.
I guess a good solution to obvious problems from that would be multiple releases with different configurations of preinstalled software.
Anyway, Ubuntu is no different from Windows in terms of initial bugs. Everyone goes on about how they are going to wait for Vista service pack 1, so it doesn't hurt at all to wait a while for Dapper, either :)
(With the only difference being that Ubuntu doesn't do Service Packs).