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[darkemeralds]

It took the better part of eight hours, but I'm now the curious and interested owner of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, "Precise Pangolin" (the P entry in Linux's longstanding alphabetical animal naming scheme--my previous O/S was Lucid Lynx so I've skipped M, N and O), and my backups are restoring now. The microphone and recording problems are fixed! Everything works again! \o/

The new operating system takes some getting used to, but it's extremely good-looking and quite fast. There's really very little left in Ubuntu that's uber-geeky (though I did have to do a couple of command-line operations this afternoon), and for the first time I can imagine Linux as an OS for everyday home computer users.

Now to treat myself to an episode of Lewis (thank you, emungere, for tempting me into it--because I needed another show to watch!).

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[ranunculus]

I've switched to Mageia, which I LOVE. I'm a K desktop user, and while K works ok in Ubuntu it works well on Mageia. This is an offspring of the old Mandrake now gone community. Just as easy to install, also with some issues around sound.

Sorry about the link to Libre, it is a reflexive action when someone says the words "reload". Duh.

[darkemeralds]

Slow reply, but THANK YOU for the suggestion of Mageia. I had never even heard of it, and had to look it up. I'm going to learn a bit more and see if I can trial-run it off a CD. I imagine I'll be reporting back.

[ranunculus]

I started out with Mandrake a LONG time ago. Got very comfy with all its oddities. Not much recognizable in Mageia, but I still like the feel of the distro. In Ubuntu I never quite got the hang of exactly how to get to some of the settings. Part of it is that I don't do command line, though Donald does.

We started by using a disc, took a few minutes to figure out how to make it actually load permanently on the machine!