A friend of mine has this very old machine. It was running Window XP, and has lot of troubles with it. Since it is old, and the driver set was not complete. I decided to put the latest version of Ubuntu on it instead a version of Windows due to the drivers and speed issues.
As expected, everything went okay. Granted, it took longer to install due to the speed of the machine. After a reboot, everything is working fine, and that includes components which was not working in Windows before (a add-on USB2 card). Now, the fun part begins. Where the computer is used, it has not internet connection, i.e. software needs to be installed offline. Since the installation allows multi lanuguage, I expected that I can install Asian languages from the installation CD. How wrong I was. Okay, what bout VLC? Wrong again.
Okay, I guess I just need to get the packages from the Net, and install it offline. Well, I can do with some, but not all of them. Since one software often use libraries from others, this make my life extremely difficult if I want to install software offline. I need to ensure I download all the pacakges required, including dependencies. The matter can only get more complicated by minutes as there is also a versioning problem.
Although, the default setup is more usable than a Window machine. It is shortfall in offline software installtion may prevent people like my friend to move to Ubuntu (Linux)
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