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[Martin Wildam <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

today I made an experiment which for me is difficult to do: I showed
Ubuntu 12.04 beta to a person (about 70 years old) completely new to
computers (only used the mouse to click through a set of photos so far
but that's it). I only know a very few people of this type because
most already have used computers.

I have seen a lot of funny and interesting behaviour (like hit the key
with the pipe character written on it instead of i ;-) ) - but here
the relevant results in very short:

a) The unity launchers - because of the size and because they are
quadratic were the only things easy to click for the person with low
mouse experience level. I am sure rectangular size - e.g. on
traditional taskbars would have been more difficult to click.

b) Without explanations - whatever Operating System - a complete
newbie person cannot learn only on his/her own. There needs to be a
person that explains. Not to talk about administration. A newbie with
low experience level will never administrate the computer on his/her
own. There must be a person with higher experience level helping out
and doing this for everyone who just wants to do a few things (or must
do). This draws a very important conclusion for me - confirming my
belly feeling somehow: The operating system must try to minimize the
annoyance for that guy behind everything. The person that needs to
help out the core family and a dozen of friends! - That usually are IT
people or at least the very technical interested guy/girl. SO FOCUS ON
THOSE PEOPLE MORE THAN YOU FOCUS ON THE NEW USERS! If the guy/girl
that needs to administrate, hates the OS he/she will install something
else and the user needs to adapt.

c) Most websites are far more complicated than the base operating
system. Navigating those sites is far more hassle. Simple example:
First attempt on the first found website was to click on a quadratic
bullet that was used there instead of the link text next to it - of
course the bullet looked more similar to the Unity launchers. ;-) -
Not to talk about organization of the websites (each different and
often information very hidden - in many cases the newbie would loose
the most hours here).

Best regards, Martin.

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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 elementary OS:
  Confirmed
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:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  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:
  Confirmed
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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