One of my clients has a dual-boot system so that WHEN Windows goes wrong he can still use the machine but he is reluctant to use Ubuntu and keeps making increasingly small excuses for not trying it. The latest was the nautilus file-browser displays things as icon (queue long rant). Before he had finished ranting i had changed the default.
He has an ancient hand-held which used to need some proprietary software to synch with the machine. Ubuntu has something better (covers more machines) free but he can't get a copy of the software he used in Xp. The only blocker now is the few minutes/hours he would need to set-up the UserID on the hand-held and in JPilot to allow them to synch. He is happier with the idea of spending days or even weeks trying to get another copy of the old proprietary software which will still need him to spend a few minutes/hours sorting the UserID on both the hand-held and in the software. When people feel that many days and hours sorting a Windows problem is fine but spending a few minutes on a Linux problem is unbearable it is difficult and frustrating for us. In Windows everything "just works" is a lie but one that is believed by people even as they spend many hours trying to fix a flaky Windows system. Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid 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: 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
