With few exceptions Ubuntu has proven to be far less overwhelming territory than I had initially anticipated. The work the community has put into developing an open source operating system that is accessible to the general public has been extraordinarily successful, as is shown by its increasing profile amongst non-techies.
Several of the tasks I had expected to be ominous proved to be anything but. Getting a printer set up for example was nearly as simple as a PC; in fact it was more so because Ubuntu never asked …