I was half expecting this post to detail the difficulties I was experiencing getting my printer and tablet to work in Ubuntu, having heard that the process could be troublesome. My experience turned out to be much better!

In fact, to my surprise, the whole set up experience was much easier than in Windows. The phrase ‘plug and play’ is bandied about all too often, but that’s exactly how it was for me in Ubuntu.

I plugged them into the USB port, and they worked, straight away. No messing about with drivers, and no configuration apart from clicking a few boxes for the printer. (On a dialogue box that automatically popped up.)

All of which is fantastic from the point of view of a user; not so great when I was hoping to have something to write about from the experience!

Onwards to the Ipod now. Maybe I’ll have something to complain about after that.