Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-16 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hello, I'd have to agree with Tomasz and MTP: this is the least of our priorities and the suggestion how to improve this bit is highly arguable and not necessary an improvement at all. Can you prove with some usability study or similar that this wording is really misunderstood by an large amount

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Jonathan Davies
2009/1/15 Brett Alton brett.jr.al...@gmail.com: Maybe post some information on the Ubuntu website how OpenOffice.org can save/edit/read Microsoft Office documents? What about a wizard for installing the Internet (DSL, dial-up, etc.)? As for the educational section of Ubuntu, what about schools

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
She really wanted Windows, didn't she? We should focus on making the operating system good for people who actually want something else, not people who receives the wrong product. There are guides for new users and these should obviously receive continuious attention, though I feel they're already

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Aaron Toponce
Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: She really wanted Windows, didn't she? We should focus on making the operating system good for people who actually want something else, not people who receives the wrong product. There are guides for new users and these should obviously receive continuious attention,

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Belinda A. Lopez
On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: She really wanted Windows, didn't she? We should focus on making the operating system good for people who actually want something else, not people who receives the wrong product. There are guides for new users

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Brett Alton wrote: http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184 This girl in the United States ordered an Ubuntu-loaded Dell laptop by accident, expecting it came with Windows. She was confused due to Ubuntu 7.10's inability to load her Verizon Internet CD

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Brett Alton
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jonathan Davies j...@ubuntu.com wrote: 2009/1/15 Brett Alton brett.jr.al...@gmail.com: Maybe post some information on the Ubuntu website how OpenOffice.org can save/edit/read Microsoft Office documents? What about a wizard for installing the Internet (DSL,

Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

2009-01-15 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Brett Alton brett.jr.al...@gmail.com wrote: Well, we already have an education page, which can be found at: http://www.ubuntu.com/education . That's very well done, but can we get a link on the front page? Not today but soon. We're working on improving the