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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)
True.  I don't think this path would have been chosen if there had been any choice about it.  I think we had 2 choices
1. stick with Gnome which had no touchscreen support and no intention of building that in any-time in the next few years plus watch Gnome 
1.a) Watch Gnome head towards where Unity is now
1.b) copy Mint's idea of developing a "plugin" for gnome3 to make it look more like gnome2, with an ever increasing amount of work to keep the plugin working

2. Find something else that did have touchscreen support (or could
develop it fairly easily) and was willing to be developed in a direction
that might gain a larger user-share

I think both the Gnome project and the Ubuntu project failed to work
together in a mutually beneficial way apparently causing perfectly
reasonable and justifiable ire on both sides.

I don't follow the relevant threads and i am not invoved with either
project so please forgive me if i have got it all wrong.  I'm just
giving my own impression as i squint from the distant side-lines.

Ubuntu has taken a hefty beating over this and has dropped from the 1st
place position it has occupied for many many years in the opinion polls
that i do occasionally glance at (at DistroWatch).  Mint chose option 1b
which gives us all at least 1 possible place to go in the short-term but
it's an untenable position so hopefully Ubuntu's position will prove
best in the longer-term as i would like to return to it if i am ever
'forced' to go to another member of the same family or perhaps even give
Mageia or something for a try for a year or so.

Don't forget that support for the 10.04 LTS lasts until at least 2013,
April so if the 12.04 LTS is not what we would hope then we still have a
year more after that.  Also while many of us had a bit of a nightmare
moving from Windows to Ubuntu it is much easier to move between
different distros, especially if they are in the same family.  Even ones
in different families are less of a stretch than between say Xp and
Vista or Win7 in my opinion.

Back when Ubuntu first started Gnome probably wasn't as great as it was
just before Gnome 3 arrived.  Things move forwards.  Unity will move
forwards i am sure.

Regards from
Tom :)

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  New
Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
  Invalid
Status in dylan.NET:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in LibreOffice:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
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 Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
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.

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