I hate to start the discussion here, but some of your points should be addressed
> I think we all need to put this in perspective - people who switch from one > distribution to another for such a > reason will likely come back to that distribution for similar reasons for the > next release. I wasn't talking about people who switch. I was talking about people who choose for the first time. These talk to their more experienced friends which distro should they use. Or read reviews which as a con will have missing OO 3.0. Or look at distrowatch and see whats included (if they are little more experienced). And the answer in my case would be go with one, which has OO 3.0 because it has better compatibility with Office documents. > I don't agree - who are the users? Ubuntu tries to position itself for the > bulk user group out there. By "Bulk > users group" I mean those that have no idea what "Launchpad" is, and don't > care, either. They are the people > that go to Wal-Mart to buy a computer, or enter the Dell site to order a > laptop that looks good, or just buy a > small netbook. These people will become the majority of Ubuntu's users are > they are the ones who are going to > win the war on Microsoft for us (by "us" I mean us Linux users). You and I are talking about different users. The users you are talking about get their distro from hw manufacturer which most likely uses LTS release + in house testing. The once I am talking about are the one who use Ubuntu because they are passionate about, the advocates, the ones testing, tinkering, making it what it is know, the vocals ones who made those HW manufacturers know that Ubuntu is desired alternative. These users really do care :-). -- [Request] OpenOffice.org 3.0 in Intrepid Backports https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
