Ubuntu - Intrepid Ibex

So here I was again!!! Ready to try another distro. Made a Live CD and away I went. Once installed, i did all the updates and then went looking for adobe flash in the synaptic pacage manager. Well what do you know. There it was and before, I could say Adobe Flash it was installed and running. Now the next bit which I was dreading, to be honest. Getting this to work on the network and print of my HP printer which is connected to a networked PC. 5 minutes is all it took. Amazing, I did not have to do much except click on the icons and everything found everything else and all is working ticketyboo!!!! So it looks like I am back where I started - full circle. This distro is the easiest to get up and running. It looks and feels a bit dated like your granny's underwear but it works best out of all the major distros. For a newbie its a great way to get into linux. One can do 80 percent of what they were doing before and hopefully the other 20% will fall into place in due course.
I have to say this version does not have Open Office V 3.0 but frankly that is not a problem. There is enough functionality here for this to be my last stop for now on the Linux road. Now that I have settled on Ubuntu my next few projects within this are as follows:
1 Get a couple of Windows programmes running under WINE
2 Get my phone to sync with Evolution
Once this is done, I will be exactly where I was with my windows laptop. The only difference is of course that this laptop is working using Linux and it was incapable of running under Windows XP.
So watch this space for more on my experiences with Linux.