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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:58, Graham <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My Gran always warmed to pot before brewing tea.
>
> I have made her tea several times without warming the pot.
> She never complained about my tea, in fact she said it was quite nice.
>
> She saw me doing it once and complained.
> "But I never warm the pot, Gran"
>
> Did she:
> A. Complain that she always thought there was something wrong with my cups of tea.
> B. Decide that warming the pot didn't seem necessary and not do it in future.

I rather think that she was just polite by telling you that your tea
is "quite nice". When she complained she finally found, what you are
doing wrong. ;-) - SCNR.

Moral: Things seeming unlogical first, might become quite logical when
you know all the details.

And regarding Ubuntu: There are still many issues and basically Linux
applications are buggy in the same way as Windows applications are.
The architecture of the Linux OS is better than Windows IMHO (and of
course this is the opinion of many others too), but this is the good
thing that mostly just the admin cares of. Open Office has bugs and
annoyances also - I know it - I am a long-time user of both worlds. If
you know the details (and with "details" I mean the experience you get
when working in real environment on a day-to-day-basis), you see still
enough good reasons why people stick to Windows.

Ubuntu (or other Linux distributions - I consider Ubuntu the best on
the desktop together with Mint maybe that anyway is based on Ubuntu)
has still a long way to go to be the killer-OS. And only, when it gets
close to being the killer-OS then vendors will consider preinstalling
Ubuntu rather than Windows.

Regarding the hardware I am quite happy with certifications like those
given on the Ubuntu.com site at the bottom
(http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/ - already mentioned
earlier). The wiki also holds relevant information at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hardware. Or the list at
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatdb/vendors/hardware_linux.html is
also nice.
And with focus on printers http://www.openprinting.org/printers
So I will keep going with those so far.

-- 
Martin Wildam

http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam

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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.