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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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[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!