On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Martin Wildam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Before diving more into the Ubuntu community I was not aware of those > "quality" differences. I started using Ubuntu on my workplace with > 9.04 and it was fully usable and stable, also the 9.10. - 10.10 and > 11.04 had IMHO the biggest stability problems since I use Ubuntu. Too > few experience yet for 11.10 but from current impression not yet > reaching the reliability from 9.04 and 9.10. And of course this does > not help to fix Bug 1. > I agree with you there... I had first used Ubuntu with 9.04, and it was rock solid stable for me. I had trouble with Karmic and Lucid upgrades, and I had to do fresh installs, but then they did become rock solid stable. Maverick I think was the most solid release I saw, but Natty and Oneiric - not so much; for instance, in Oneiric, nautilus still freezes for me on my VAIO - everything works well now on the other Vostro V13, ever since the nautilus-open-terminal bug was fixed. I would never turn back to Windows, but: Ubuntu (or other Linux > distros) cannot be considered as being superior in any circumstance. > Just to give an example: When I go to customers and connect my > notebook to a beamer, it happened already several times that I had > problems (reaching from X hangup when activating the beamer to screen > resolution messed up). Related to that there are issues using my > Ubuntu on a laptop with a docking station (and I only use Dell laptops > with official Linux support). Windows 7 is doing a superior job here > for example. A bad image for Ubuntu when I do get problems while many > people are all looking at my desktop. For example, fixing such issues > would have been more important than introducing a new desktop > environment (as my experience with Unity regarding this is not any > better). > I am surprised you had projector blues - I regularly connect from Ubuntu/Arch Linux to projectors, and they work with plug and play in seconds! - ever since Karmic actually (never really had to do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg). The Vaio has an nvidia card, and to connect it to a projector, or even to a TV using an HDMI cable, all I need to do is to go to Display Settings and select Twinview, and its on! As for the Vostro, which has an Intel chip, the last time I tried it - a week ago - I just plugged the projector in and it was all good to go! All I did was select whether to mirror screens or have a separate screen for starting a slideshow presentation. And guess who had trouble connecting that day - Mac users! - for the lack of an adapter for the projector, which I feel is unnecessary to require in the first place. > They could go even further and try to force companies to > drop Linux by offering cheaper licenses to those manufacturers who do > only support Windows. - I am very happy that Dell has a lot of Ubuntu > certified models (still should be more) and I know that you can get > models with Ubuntu preinstalled even if that is not published on their > site. A reason why I do recommend Dell to everybody who is asking me > for a hardware recommendation. > My Vostro V13 came with Ubuntu 9.04. I had heard that you can still order laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed, but the last time I tried to order a laptop from them on the phone, I was told they were unable to get me one with Ubuntu. I ended up not getting one (it was to replace the Vostro whose LCD I had stepped on and broken, and which they wanted to charge almost the cost of the laptop for fixing it for me even though it was still under warranty. Angered by this fact, I decided to fix it myself, and it turned out to be MUCH easier than I had thought - unscrew, put, screw, done!). The problem is still, I insist, MS monopoly, and vendor lock-in for drivers, and software lock-in for proprietary stuff - my Fiancee has to use Windows because she needs a certain software called "Tooth Atlas" - runs on Windows and Mac, and not so great with Wine. Well, maybe that will change someday when people realize GNU/Linux is a tour-de-force - after all, it indeed IS superior! I myself am happy to have expurgated all traces of Windows from my own laptops! I think the self-certified hardware phenomenon would be awesome if implemented; with Macs, you get their machines, but you can still buy OSX and install it on other machines (whether it works will be a different issue). With Ubuntu, you would then be able to get their machines with everything working, and be able to install it on any other machine you wish with mostly no issues still, because GNU/Linux is that much more awesome!!! Manjul -- Manjul Apratim -- 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. 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