Comments on: You have been eaten by a grue

By: Robin Catling

Robin Catling — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:41:30 +0000

Curmudgeons of the world unite!
U expect this of M$, or Adobe, but not Canonical.
Lets hope Mr Shuttleworth’s brief includes sorting out this kind of nonsense. RC

By: popey

popey — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:26:07 +0000

Out of the box Windows doesn’t have a PDF reader, but I would imagine most Windows computers ship from OEMs with some form of PDF reader installed.

By: Benjamin Humphrey

Benjamin Humphrey — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:51:37 +0000

This is exactly the sort of stuff that inspired me to start the Ubuntu Manual Project.

Help is there, but why is it so darned hard to get to? The average user (your mum, my mum) wouldn’t have a hope in hell of being able to make it far enough to actually use it.

Manual is easy, go to our website, answer some questions about what language you speak and if you want to print it or not, then download the PDF in your locale. Double click it and the native PDF reader will open on any operating system.* Simple!

* Does Windows have a native PDF reader? I’ve forgotten.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:51:27 +0000

I’ve been very much enjoying your mumbuntu posts.

You say “(hah)” about filing bugs – but imagine how proud you’d be if she did!

By: popey

popey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:49 +0000

Yeah, it’s not as well publicised as it could be, and certainly not as easy to find!

The cost was pleasantly surprising. I was expecting to pay a lot more for a multi-hour training course, especially when you look at how expensive most CBT courses are.