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Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority desktop market share
Hi :)
I think the switch to Unity is beginning to pay off.
Other distros that decided to write their own flavour of the new Gnome
are going to get increasingly bogged-down with that. Hopefully they
might be able to combine a few of those projects and at least one will
remain sustainable and go in a good direction. It's a bit of a gamble
though and there is no certainty in what they are doing.
Ubuntu is primarily a gateway project to help people migrate away from
non-Gnu&Linux. As such it is still highly successful. Even if a lot of
people are still jumping-ship it doesn't really hurt Ubuntu all that
much. Most of those people are likely to be working upstream in
projects such as LibreOffice and other programs that are often used in
Ubuntu. By working upstream they help more than one distro.
Unity is becoming increasingly useful to power-users so many of those
people will probably return but with new-found (or rediscovered) skills
and interests and hopefully some interesting new ideas too.
I wasn't a huge fan of Unity at the start but i had a feeling that
things would go this way. Fortunately for me i am really happy with
Unity in the 12.04 so i was able to stick with the 10.04 and then
smoothly 'upgrade' (actually did a fresh reinstall on most machines)
from one LTS to the next.
So, for me it's all been a bit of a storm in a tea-cup.
Regards from
Tom :)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
Title:
Microsoft has a majority desktop 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:
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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