Hi :) I think the idea about Cannonical selling hardware with Ubuntu tailored to it is not such a bad idea. There seems to be a gap in the market at local level. Dell and others sell machines with Ubuntu pre-installed and there are a lot of Dell machines being sold in computer shops locally but sadly none of the Ubuntu Dells are on display and the sales staff are clueless. Perhaps getting a smaller distributor /OEM might make a difference? Perhaps getting a local shop to have a specialty section or something might help?
The original suggestion from Torpedolos seemed based on a few widespread mis-conceptions. Apple is growing but Ubuntu is almost certainly growing faster but is starting from a smaller market share. Apple are highly visible and spend a fortune on PR and advertising. Ubuntu just gets on mostly by word-of-mouth. I doubt Apple costs less to develop as a lot of Ubuntu is developed for free, certainly a lot of the bug-squad work for free. Do we really know if Apple's OS is lighter and faster than Ubuntu? I have found installing Ubuntu on different machines makes Ubuntu look and feel quite different, especially on machines that have bluetooth devices or wireless or both. Sure there are usually 1 or 2 things that need to be tweaked but usually on almost all hardware it seems to set-up just fine. Out of 4 recent machines 2 didn't need any tweaking to get hardware working although i swapped the window buttons back to the Windows side rather than the Mac side. 1 machine needed to have "cheese" installed but then intgrated the web-cam into all appropriate apps without any further agro. Just my own home-machine happens to be awkward with 10.04 for some reason but was/is fine with 9.04. Oh and i never have been good at setting up network printers on any OS. Still there is clearly a big gap there in local stores. 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 Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
