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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Henderson (2nd Acnt) <pk.hender...@westnet.com.au> Date: Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM Subject: You lost a new Ubuntu user To: ubuntu-devel-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com Dear Development owner, I'm sorry I really don't want to have to go through all the rigmarole or joining a forum when I only have one message to put on it and move on so I'm writing to you. If you want to put it up on the Dev Forum that's up to you. The problem in a nutshell is I've been a lifelong Microsoft user and before that I used Gary Kildall's CP/M. I have basically reached a point where with such a complex operating system and every day I see Microsoft heading towards more DRM and with it I'm losing the original rights as a user and ultimate manager of my operating system to someone that every time I do something I'm prey to Malware, the operating system "phones home" my actions or software is starting to dictate what I do, I see these as processes that are getting worse, not better. The short answer is I seriously considering going into open source software so I can theoretically verify there is nothing but 100% code designed to purely to put me in charge in the most efficent way possible for the least amount of complexity and to be completely frank I love a little "eye candy" as well. For the last couple of weeks I've been asking around "who has the best FOSS operating sysem" and the average answer is Ubuntu so when I got the chance in reformatting my HDD to allow me to start the first steps in changing over I obtained Ubuntu. I started the desktop version I downloaded and I thought it was marvelous with graphical screens and a huge range of options that took a bit of work to figure out but I slowly picked up how it did things for where I wanted the system to go and to be honest "I was as happy as a clam at high tide". Then came the deathnell for using the system because at 82% of installation IT SETS UP AN INTERNET CONNECTION AND USES MY ADSL MODEM AND WANDERS OFF TO SOME WEBSITE(MIRROR) FOR SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN KNOW AND I DIDN'T ASK FOR........... There are heaps of us guys under the shadow of MS that are thinking about Linux as the alternative not because we want to tinker all day with a esoteric command line sequence but simply we want a robust OS and the paradigm of "the user is in charge". If your aim is for someone who wants software to make all the decisions then I supose this is their system but if this is how the installation program treates me, who is to say what is is the rest of OS. Many thanks for providing me with software to begin with, I appreciate there must have been a lot of work go into it. Peter Henderson -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss