UBUNTU FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Well it was a pain in the backside but not as much as before...

...but in all fairness this was more down to this HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop and I could not figure out how to get into BIOS SETTINGS and HP have this cut down OS type thing going on I have never used.

Only I lost patience trying to figure out which button it was and it was not the obvious three choices. So could not boot from Optical Drive and therefore could not create a USB key so I cleared clutter and transfered a shed-load, around 80 GBs, of data of to my 2TB WD Elements External Drive and installed it.

Only now I have it on it seems quite pleasing but it boots straight into Ubuntu now and also... well its actually slower than Windows 7 and I was certainy not expecting that?!

It is now late and I have no idea why it is slow as it certainly should be a damn site quicker than Windows 7 so I will have to fathom that out, probably be tomorrow as I am knackered but will tinker for awhile.

It is very uncluttered and I cannot seem to access the files stored in Windows on my C: drive either but that is no big deal right now and more important that I get that Boot Option to appear on start up!

I do find it amusing that the magazine and everyone said how easy and simple it was and yet I had failed to get the Disc to boot, failed to make a USB key and now not sure if I can get Windows back.

Added to that is the fact as I was typing that last paragraph I got the "Error while trying to publish your post" message which was the main reason I decided to try this. Though in all honesty I did not think it would cure that and why I did not try Ubuntu much earlier but my curiosity in Linux and Ubuntu in particular made me think that if I installed it and it did cure that problem it would be a great bonus!

Still I did also get a loss of connection every now and then and let us see if that still occurs?

Now I will try and go back to finding an Excel Spreadsheet somewhere else on my system and see how that software looks as I have never used this Libre Office and only ever used MS Office and Open Office. Hmm Open Office should install on Ubuntu?

Ahh yes I will check out that software center first!!


EDIT:

Figured the KEY for BIOS SETTINGS. It is F10, though I get into it via the "esc" key.

Turned of the HP Quick Launch or whatever it was called.

I then changed the boot delay from 0 to 5 and WAHEY!!!

Only Ubuntu then froze on its second start up and I had to hold the power button down for 7 seconds to force a shut down?! Ohh I think this Wappy thingy may not be quite "there yet"?!

Still seems slow and a little unresponsive and i will be totally honest here and cannot believe I am about to type this but it is making Windows 7 look like greased lightning right now.

This cannot be right and I am thinking it is this fancy method for installing it using the Wabi (was it?) Force method. So I am assuming this is still a relatively new method and has some ... KINKS, lol.

Still I have the Windows Option back up which is a relief as i am quite busy with all these blogs right now and having to mess around with another reinstall just a few months after the last would be quite annoying.

I might look into this unresponsive Ubuntu on the Internet tomorrow at some point.

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