Hi, In my opinion (and possibly it has been mentioned before but I did not have the courage to read through all the posts) the main problem is the office suite one. I've switched to Ubuntu 3-4 years ago but and I don't think I will ever come back to Windows. However I still do need a virtual machine running Windows because when in a world dominated by the MS Office Suite documents you want to contribute efficiently OpenOffice/LibreOffice simply aren't up to the task (I'll be happy to stand corrected though).
Otherwise, yes, Linux and more specifically Ubuntu is a great OS : at home we switched to Ubuntu a few years ago and neither my son or daughter or wife would like to switch back to Windows. Again, however, as my son started his engineering studies and some of the tasks requires the use of Autodesk Inventor, we had to make his laptop dual boot into Windows 7. I myself, as an engineer, cannot e.g. install a CATIA v5 viewer from Dassault Systems in Linux (again I need to use the virtual machine). So, IMHO, it is not the quality of the OS that is holding back the penetration of the Linux OS in the market, but rather the lack of an office suite that is compatible with, like it or not, the dominating standard as well as other key software that is Windows only (AutoCAD, CST MicroWave Studio, CATIA v5, ...) or just works better on Windows (e.g. ANSYS). I was told that as an outcome of the big look-and-feel law suites between MS and Apple the outcome was that MS was forced to produce an up to date MS office suite for Macs and that is probably Macs are still around (IMHO). I guess that Apple returned the favor by providing an iTunes that works on Windows (and their latest generation of iPods need iTunes to load music). my 2 cents ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GenOS: In Progress Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in NULL Project: Invalid 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 Gnome Remix Metapackages: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
