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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:04, Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I find that after a decent install most people don't even notice that they are
> using a different OS.  Firefox is there and the menus easy to navigate.
> Documents open with a double-click.

I don't fully agree - e.g. Movie player is not playing a lot of
videos. Need to use VLC for those - so VLC must be installed and for
different files open with must be changed to use VLC instead of movie
player by default. I tend to instruct people to first double-click and
when it does not work use right mouse button and open with VLC. This
is easier than trying to find a sample for each possible format and
change default open. Similar applies for sound formats.

And there are IMHO some other first-to-dos, be it tools to install
(like gsmartcontrol, Thunderbird, ...) and some options to change. -
But I don't want to complain about this because I have plenty more
first-to-dos under Win* and on Ubuntu I start the Synaptic, go once
through the list, ticking everything I want and then save the list to
an external file and never need to do it again manually.


> As G stated it is the install process that is the most difficult part.

No, really, the installation is straight-forward. As with 10.10 it
either already starts preparing the harddrive while I do the last
inputs, is awesome - as well as WLAN already available and downloading
the updates already on the go. And with net access it already knows
the country I am in (regarding time settings). So there is nothing
more I wish to have.


> We try to make that easy and many people have lists of what to do after a basic install
> in blogs and websites or in magazines.

One idea: You could grab the most used sets of pre-installations and
pre-sets and offer that as additional option at installation, e.g.
similar as Fedora does, asking the user for typical use "Home user,
Developer, Designer/Photographer, ..." - that probably would make it
easier for a lot of people and for Canonical it would be just running
a few additional apt-get install lines and maybe some default
configuration files. I personally already have some files containing
those, so for me no problem as it.

-- 
Martin Wildam

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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.