Am 10.11.2011 04:15 schrieb "turbolad" <[email protected]>: > Imagine you have never used or seen Ubuntu in your life, > then you are presented with it. Ubuntu looks new and > scary.
I do not agree on this. I know plenty of people who switched from a classic mobile phone to an iPhone or Android for example. Of course, it is a bit scary in the beginning, but then they begin to like the advantages over the drawbacks (most important: battery life) and - they feel being much cooler now. Similar applies when people change car manufacturer after many years. A lot of small things are different when you change car, but in general you can drive it. Whether the taskbar is on the bottom or on the left, is the least important difference between Windows and Ubuntu! People will be really scared when they open the first complex Word document in LibreOffice. On the other hand they will enjoy the software center which is similar to appstore or Android market which they already know from their mobile phone and no need to search the internet for plenty of download links. > *Newbies to Ubuntu > These users are different to advanced users who know how > to edit configuration files, use the Terminal and change > their GUI etc. Setup everything for newbies... start with a > firewall integrated in Ubuntu (and variants of Ubuntu) that > passes the "Shields Up" test on grc.com – advanced users > can remove these things or tweak them, but newbies won't > know how. Most dummy users on Windows first call an advanced user to install and setup their new PC as it was before. And they struggle in the switch from XP to Windows 7 or from Office 2003 to 2010 - all those people struggle anyway and by this fact plenty of people switch to Mac because they see their need to adapt to something new anyway and they already own an iPhone. I would like to see those using Android switch to Ubuntu. :-) > *Upgrading Ubuntu can sometimes break things > I've seen a netbook get upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to > 10.10 and its wireless stopped working. It was already mentioned, that this should be better now but anyway: Other OS suffer the same. > Windows for many years and suddenly use Ubuntu - > changing the operating system for newbies is scary to them See above - and as long as think of this argument, the more examples I find about scary UI changes. Happens either, when your wife gets a new washing machine or new TV to some extent - compared to the taskbar on the left maybe even worse... > *The "restricted extras" > You must still install the "restricted extras" in Ubuntu > (and its variants) after installing Ubuntu It's just a checkbox during install - puhhh... Really, there are more important problems! -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- 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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