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I installed Ubuntu today, over my non-working Fedora install. It is, in brief, zee oh em gee easy, in comparison with every other Linux distribution I’ve ever tried.

Let’s count the obvious plusses:

• You download one CD image. Not six, and not a DVD. One CD. This took all of about an hour to bittorrent.
• You get the option of installing it as a server. I don’t even have a monitor that I’ll connect to this machine, only a borrowed LCD with very limited capabilities, and I don’t want the hassle, or even the time, it takes to start X11. It also means that it won’t automatically misconfigure X11, and then only try to boot into a graphical shell.
• It, oh wow, it created a regular user during the install! Yeah, that there is damned useful.

The only point that was a little confusing was the partitioning step, because I wanted to preserve one of the partitions. I had to learn, on the fly, how their UI worked, but that was pretty minor.