On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, pirast <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Well, Ubuntu/Canonical certified that Laptop, so that it gets a shiny Ubuntu > sticker and can be sold as "Ubuntu certified". > I would expect at least some person from Canonical/Ubuntu to look at it > before certifying it, so that there's an acceptable user experience available. > > I have bought many (>10) Windows certified systems, and they all worked just > fine. > It's the first time in my life that I bought a computer system that does not > do what I expect it to do (bad battery life, fan running all the time, > hardware/touchpad not working right - never had that before). > > That's a pretty poor out of the box experience, isn't it? > > And saying that the problem belongs to the manufacturer is not fair I think: > See http://www.canonical.com/engineering-services/oem-services/oem-services: > Dell has at least booked the Standard package from there, which includes > "Hardware enablement". Has Canonical made the hardware work, what it promises > there to do? No! Has Canonical provided any fixes upstream? No. > > > The way it is I would not say that Ubuntu is a serious competitior to > Windows. Back to the drawing board.
Most of your points are pretty valid. I've used Ubuntu since 5.10 but never bought Ubuntu certified computer. Have you tried given support contact before using community channel like this bug? I'm familiar with Ubuntu community so I subscribe to this bug. But if I'm a random customer I won't post my review here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
