Comment 504 for bug 1

Hello

I'm new to the site, so I think a quick presentation is in order.

My name is Kristen (a male name in Denmark), I'm 42 years old and I'm married to Marianne.

We're both working with IT, Marianne is an IT-consultant/project manager. I'm a partner in a small firm selling IT products to business and private customers. This in mind we have been a bit reluctant to take on Microsoft. We are Microsoft resellers and that is fine for most of our customers right now. This weekend I have been looking at Kubuntu since it's the distribution that looks most like winslows. I think it's important to take the customers by the hand and make baby steps away from the mastodont known as Mickeysoft. ;-)

I must say I'm impressed with what I've seen this weekend. I installed Kubuntu 7.04 from a magazine-cd just to see how a windows user might do it. The install was flawless, although I think the part on partitioning the harddisk could be a little more user friendly. I made a backup, resized my hard disk and installed. This all went very well. Then I updated through ADEPT. Also very easy. Then I realized I was working on an "old" distribution. On to Google and find out how to update to 7.10 - the instruction on how to do this was less than 10 lines.....

Wine is also installed - and that was incredibly easy - installing a windows program with winefile is also straight forward.

All in all I'm very pleased with the new Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Next step is buying an x-one notebook and installing a Kubuntu on it. Then we can probably sell the notebook for around the equivalent to 700 US$ - this is cheap in Denmark.

I'm looking forward to working with Kubuntu!

Greetings from Denmark
Kristen