On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:15, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > If people really want the opposite of what is on offer then we should > listen, smile smugly and walk away. As keeps being pointed out many people > new > into the linux-world just want a free version of Windows complete with all > it's > vulnerable broken systems and "blame the user" mentality. Just smile and walk > away. Usually these people change their attitude once they begin to realise > the > gems on offer. I did.
In my personal case even before I learned to love some of the gems offered by Linux and Ubuntu in particular, I enjoyed the missing flaws I experienced on Windows where - after more than 15 years - I lost confidence to the OS, the Company and the technologies used. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 14:39, lelamal <[email protected]> wrote: > I just meant that freedom of choice, in my view, is fundamental to Linux, and > that without choice there's no freedom. Which is a scenario we're all familiar > with, and is called Windows. Having the choice is important at least because apart from personal favors one thing cannot do best in any circumstances. For example: With a fully featured desktop there is less performance and more memory used. Bad for weak workstations. While I am sure that there can be optimization done (I find Gnome getting faster with each new version), you can't get a truck and a roadster all-in-one. > All in all, unfortunately, I don't think this bug will ever get fixed. It's > true, in my view, that most people feel more comfortable in the restricted > space where the monopoly of the year decides to confine them, rather than > wandering in the vast open space of freedom where choices are too abundant not > to feel overwhelmed. 1. Most people don't have a plain idea of what they are in. They suffer and find it normal. 2. Having the choice means you either have to a) invest more time at the beginning to find out what fits better for your requirements or b) ask a friend what you should use. If you are not willing to invest more time at the beginning (which of course could probably save you tons of time later) and you don't have friends who have walked that path before (moving to Linux), it is logical to stay with what you know. - But: Staying with what you know is not what I experienced with people coming from XP to Windows 7 and Office 97-2003 to Office 2007/2010. Apart from other tools they use, the core things they usually deal with have changed radically. I can see people having less problems getting familiar with Ubuntu and Open Office than getting familiar with Windows 7 and MS Office >=2007. That said, Ubuntu and other distributions still also have a long way to go: Yesterday I lost a complete workday by getting Ubuntu 10.04 to work with my docking station - to make it use just (and only) the external monitor. This is something that already worked better with 9.04 and it should work automatically (plenty of people complaining about this issue on various forums, some either downgraded back to 9.10). It is hard to convince people of using Ubuntu instead of Windows when such basics don't work out of the box. But finally: I lost complete workdays on Windows also a few times when something got fu**ed up. I still prefer Ubuntu, but I am a technical guy and can help myself, get into the communities and find solutions. Other users don't have that option (although I don't know anyone using Windows who has not his personal support guy if he is not a techie himself). -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- 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: Confirmed 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 Linux OS Project: 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: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid 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. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
