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[Tom <TomDavies04@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam

I think the best time to get your bug-reports noticed is during beta testing for an LTS so try a LiveCd
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
or add 1 partition to your dual/multi-boot & see if your existing bugs are still a problem. If they are then add Lucid 10.04 to releases affected at the top. See how many machines you can try the LiveCd on & see if friends or colleagues are interested in trying a pre-release sneak preview ;) (they prolly would for a movie?)

I think the biggest problem for linux is that mostly when you first want
to try it you have to do some of the trickiest, most complex stuff just
to install it. After a successful install you don't need to use any of
that expertise. So people need to be expert before they can just demo
it!! Luckily the LiveCds step in but many users are scared of messing
with the bios ...

By comparison Windows is installed by teams of experts on batches of
identical machines in the only arrangement that Windows can handle, 1
partition on 1 drive. They have to do endless amounts of tweaks, and
reboots and updates and reboots and upgrades and reboots and updates
again and reboots. Even then there is a failure rate with machines being
ditched or sent back to the start or off-loaded. All this on machines
that have manufacturers providing drivers & full support. None of this
gets seen by wide-eyed-end-users.

I know someone that runs a computer recycling place where they take
machines that are no longer top-end and sometimes sort the hardware a
little. They find that ON AVERAGE its about 60hours to get a machine
fully working under Windows. The weeu then say they prefer Windows
because it "just works" "out of the box"

My machine flies along with linux, i would hate it to only "just work"

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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Bug description:
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.