Hi :) Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or hand-held devices in your town! Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere.
Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk. However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed. Quite the contrary! Now is the time to really start working at it! Now that mobile devices and hand-helds have become so common-place it should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux friendly. Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i will be able to print from my Android. So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?" or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work network. Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?" This demand needs to reach the OEMs. Stores need to know that they have got to start supporting Gnu&Linux = that there is demand for it and that the demand is growing. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Martyn Vallett <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> >To: tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk >Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:48 >Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share > > >I firmly believe that this bug is no where near being fixed! > >Things that need to be fixed: > >1. Quite a few of the OEM's still don't support Linux, and whenever >drivers are asked for (I'm talking about items that aren't supported >correctly by the kernel, such as my particular GPU.) they try to get you >to use windows. I know this through experience! Now if bug 1 was truly >fixed then I should have had no problem at all getting what I needed, or >not to have needed to get the drivers in the first place. > >2. This has already been mentioned a lot but the retail stores dislike >selling anything other than windows pre-installed. > >3. I've already mentioned this before but, we really need some >advertising of some sort. I only know two people other than myself in my >town that use Linux. Advertising/Public awareness could change that. > >I agree with PJO about the closure statement, It definitely sounded a >bit odd. > > -- 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
