Hi :) http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam
I think the best time to get your bug-reports noticed is during beta testing for an LTS so try a LiveCd https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD or add 1 partition to your dual/multi-boot & see if your existing bugs are still a problem. If they are then add Lucid 10.04 to releases affected at the top. See how many machines you can try the LiveCd on & see if friends or colleagues are interested in trying a pre-release sneak preview ;) (they prolly would for a movie?) I think the biggest problem for linux is that mostly when you first want to try it you have to do some of the trickiest, most complex stuff just to install it. After a successful install you don't need to use any of that expertise. So people need to be expert before they can just demo it!! Luckily the LiveCds step in but many users are scared of messing with the bios ... By comparison Windows is installed by teams of experts on batches of identical machines in the only arrangement that Windows can handle, 1 partition on 1 drive. They have to do endless amounts of tweaks, and reboots and updates and reboots and upgrades and reboots and updates again and reboots. Even then there is a failure rate with machines being ditched or sent back to the start or off-loaded. All this on machines that have manufacturers providing drivers & full support. None of this gets seen by wide-eyed-end-users. I know someone that runs a computer recycling place where they take machines that are no longer top-end and sometimes sort the hardware a little. They find that ON AVERAGE its about 60hours to get a machine fully working under Windows. The weeu then say they prefer Windows because it "just works" "out of the box" My machine flies along with linux, i would hate it to only "just work" Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. Status in Club Distro: Invalid Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Invalid Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: In Progress Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Status in “linux” package in Debian: Confirmed Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: New 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. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
