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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:18, Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When people feel that many days and hours sorting a Windows problem is fine but
> spending a few minutes on a Linux problem is unbearable it is difficult and
> frustrating for us.

Yes. Full Ack!


>  In Windows everything "just works" is a lie

No, it's not a lie - it's a damn lie!

But seriously: Yesterday in train I have seen a young woman with a
super stylish Sony notebook with Vista or Win 7 on it, needing 3
attempts of typing a word until finding out the caps lock is on and
spending a minute on adjusting the spaces in the Word document header
to have a text centered and the (of course manually entered) current
date on the right. - You can be sure that there is a large amount of
people working that way and seriously: For those it is completely
irrelevant if they have menus or ribbons or whatever OS underneath.
They are completely lost anyway. - This is a reason why I find it more
important to focus development of Ubuntu on those who want to be
productive and not on the completely newbies. - Those who have a small
rest of flexibiilty will adapt to a little changing in the GUI and the
others are lost anyway - with their old or new OS and applications.

Best regards,

Martin.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in GNOME Screensaver:
  Won't Fix
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  New
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
Status in openSUSE:
  In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux:
  New

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.