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In addition to comment 1647 (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1647 ) I'd like to
shed some additional light that may help in debugging:
http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/140 .

>From my personal experience,  I have seen similar things happening with
the whole bunch of linux kernel USB 2.0 problems -- see e.g. comment 594
( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-
source-2.6.20/+bug/88746/comments/594 ) for bug 88746 (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746
) .

Please note that this comment was added more than three years after the initial bug was filed!
( After living for several years with this bug, and a lot of digging, I have finally realized how complex the situation was, and for me it seems to have almost gone -- two more years later and with a backported kernel, but from a new user's point of view -- no one even have _tried_ to explain all the difficulties and intrinsic details for USB 2.0 support in the linux kernel! All we've got from Canonical was "declined / won't fix" )

As a more general thing -- if then, back in the times of 7.10, the installation procedure for Ubuntu to an average computer looked like "click a few times" -- then around 9.04 it was more like "click a few times and then fix one or two minor things". 
Now it is a nightmare ( "plug and pray", "and prepare to spend from days to weeks on the forums, digging into the problem(s), testing patches, etc" ). 
I have stopped even trying anything but LTS releases long ago, and still wait for every next upgrade with fear and trembling.  

To conclude, Ubuntu is (imho) still the best linux for desktop, but with
growing number of features etc, it's getting less and less stable, and
without admitting that I doubt that this bug would ever be fixed.

PS. Got multiple "timeout errors" while trying to submit this comment.

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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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