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Several people at my school had Windows crash on their computers due to a virus originating from Facebook. I provided them with Ubuntu CDs and all installations of Ubuntu were successful, and people were able to recover most of their files that were damaged by the viruses. One person asked 'where did all of my games go?' and I told him about Wine (the Windows emulator) that might be able to play some of his games. The problem is; a lot of people expect their programs from Windows to just magically 'appear' in Ubuntu's application menus from their other partition. He thought that he lost all of his games; when in reality, they still existed on his hard drive, but they were not under any of the menus because no shortcuts had been registered.
Some other questions were:
* Will I lose all of my data when I install Ubuntu? Answer: No; according to a book that I read on partitioning; only 1% of re-partitioning attempts fail (which means that you should back up your data if you have a device such as a USB hard drive, or other backup media), and if you are unable to back up your data prior to installation; it may be possible to restore your corrupted data through the recovery utilities in Ubuntu. 
* Why doesn't YouTube work? - Answer: Flash Player is not installed; install it from their website or from the Ubuntu Software Center
* Why are all of the icons so big? - Answer: The display card was not properly configured. Simply install the proprietary driver under System>Administration>Hardware drivers
* Why won't my DVDs play? - Answer: Refer to the Ubuntu Help Center; under Music, video, and photos.
* Where's Microsoft Paint? - Look in the Graphics section of the Ubuntu Software Center. I personally would recommend using Gimp; which is a great alternative to programs such as Photoshop and Paint, and is entirely free and open-source.
* Does Ubuntu get rid of my virus? - There's probably an AntiVirus program for Ubuntu in the software center, but your Windows-based virus shouldn't affect your Ubuntu installation. 
The only problem that occurred during the installation; was that when the user inserted the installation disc; it would sometimes ask them for a password. I told them to leave the password field blank, because there was no password, and that seemed to work. This only happened in a few cases and was not a major problem.

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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.