Well, maybe you can enlighten us with the power of knowledge you DON’T have. Maybe the guest speaker was too intelligent for you, and your poor little brain just went pop….
And if you think we are all lifeless persons, why did you post a message, and 3 minutes later another one?

Oh, and for the record, computers are cool now….

Greetings from the netherlands,
Dj Biohazard

For the HP Printer, you should install HPLIP via Add/Remove and re-install the printer via the HPLIP Toolbox in System > Preferences.

I find two sets of users that migrate easy: casual users and the hard-core tweakers. Casual users say ‘hey it’s got Firefox too! And that Open Office sure beats the pants of everything including the pirated MSOffice!”.

It’s the in-between users – advanced ‘I know how to edit the registry’ types that struggle with fears of migration. They have a large useful skill set that they have to unlearn and fear the ‘down-time’ learning equivalent skills on Linux. They say ‘I can’t play game xyz”, etc. But it’s fear.

I was in that camp in 2005, suffered three BSOD in one week and losing work in the process. Stumbled across “Slax-Kill Bill Edition”, saw the humor but also was amazed at the quality of software, had an old PC that was half the specs of my existing at the time that ran Kubuntu as fast as the newer machine on BSOD Windows. Been there ever since.

You can do it.
Start with dual-boot to ease the transition. Then you’ll find the windows partition sits for six months or a year after you really start using ‘Ubuntu.

I’d suggest taking a look at: gOS, Linux Mint Fluxbox, MoonOS, Xubuntu, or Kubuntu. On your windows partition you can install Firefox, Open Office, Gimp, and Inkscape and begin there too.