Am 10.11.2011 04:15 schrieb "turbolad" <1...@bugs.launchpad.net>: > 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 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
