Back here at home, I had better success. Since I have a 4GB thumb drive, I created the Installer plus copied the ISO in this drive as well, so it is in the same place as wubi. That worked perfectly fine. I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows for this occasion and have been playing around with it for a couple of days now.
I have installed Chromium as my preferred browser, and I am currently using this on the Ubuntu platform to write this blog entry.
One of the things which I found confusing with Unity is the GUI itself. After some hit and miss, I discovered that the Applications installed in Ubuntu can be found by pressing the ... Applications button. Well, the button wasn't really that apparent! It had nothing but a plus sign on it. It didn't help either that the button was at the lower section of the vertical bar.
Click on Applications, then click on the drop-down menu at the top right to view installed apps by classification.
And by default the Control Panel was not in the menu bar either. I accidentally came across it when I searched for monitor controls under Applications. But once I found System Settings again, I tried to see if I can drag it onto the vertical bar to add it. And it did. Good thing.
So far my foray into Unity has been good. Though I think I will have a go at Gnome as well which, judging by the experience of others, is a much better interface.
One problem I am having is the monitor is stuck with a 1024 x 768 resolution. My monitor is not one of those new, widescreen versions but it is capable of a higher resolution as demonstrated by Windows XP. But currently it is stuck to 1024. Still researching on how I can increase the resolution. I need to find an updated driver perhaps...
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