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[Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar96@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people,
I am an Ubuntu user from Saudi Arabia, a country where Micro$oft is enjoying its monopoly like hell. 97 % Windows, 2.70 % Mac and 0.10 % linux, with iPhones and other devices dominating the remaining. People here are like brainwashed, and believe in Micro$oft as if its the god of software. There are a few macs here (which came in recently) but the people here regard macs as being "less matured". I use Ubuntu on my computers, and I prefer Mac OSX over Windows, and Ubuntu over Mac OSX. People here don't believe me when I tell them about Ubuntu, they say that "there won't be an operating system like that. Only 2 OSs are there, Windows and macosx." The Ubuntu Saudi Arabia LoCo team is like dead rocks, I am a member of it, and the team has made no progress since the last 3 years to become approved. 

I just visited a popular computer store here, and asked if they sell
notebooks with linux preinstalled. They said "No, we don't support
Linux. Linux damages the computer and voids the warranty. There is no
GUI in Linux. Also no programs will work on it." I told them " You are
living in 1995. Nowadays linux is no more CLI, but a GUI that is far
better than Windoze's ****ing GUI. Windows offers very little desktop
effects for the price of a HUGE system resource consumption and a price
of 600 riyals (saudi currency). Ubuntu is free, and gives you everything
you need, internet with social network integration on the desktop
itself, desktop effects, games, openoffice, cool developing APIs, faster
boot time, etc" The reply I got was " It can't be possible. Only Windows
provides internet and office applications."

Good examples of the ignorance of people in saudi arabia to new software
!!!

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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.