Here's why Microsoft has the perfect monopoly with Windows and home users – this will sound very cruel but it is true: Windows assumes the home user is dumb and makes everything easy for home users. Here's a good example: in Windows, you have a fully stealthing firewall enabled by default, but in Ubuntu you have to manually install a firewall AND manually edit a file (before.rules ) so that the firewall in Ubuntu passes the "Shields Up" test: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Things like parental controls are absent in Ubuntu and simple things are not included in the default install, such as "gnome-games". Here's another frustrating issue: why doesn't Ubuntu alert the user that the "restricted extras" can be installed to use things like Flash Player, play mp3 files etc.? I know Ubuntu can't legally include the restricted extras in the default installation, but why not TELL the user that they can install the restricted extras? Another thing that home users are familiar with and Ubuntu doesn't seem to care about: the user interface. Ever since Windows 95 – i.e. from about the time when people started using computers at home – Windows users have the familiarity of the single task bar at the bottom of the screen and it's been constant ever since. In Ubuntu, you have the cumbersome "Unity" interface which frustrates users – it really does! If Ubuntu were to see how much easier "Lubuntu" is for newcomers from Windows, instead of forcing users to learn the Unity interface, then Ubuntu would become MUCH more successful. I'm sorry if this message has sounded too critical, but it needs to be said and I would love to see more and more people use Ubuntu instead of Windows, but that won't happen until Ubuntu follows Microsoft's example of making everything very easy and always using the single "task bar" at the bottom of the screen like "Lubuntu" does. Finally – this IS a killer for Ubuntu... Users must upgrade the entire Ubuntu install just to: run newer programs, use newer hardware and still have their installed version of Ubuntu supported? Upgrading Ubuntu can break things, such as power management, drivers for wireless or other hardware devices. I have strongly suggested in the "Ubuntu Brainstorm" that there should be a "live" testing mode before upgrading, to see if the newer version of Ubuntu will work before the user upgrades Ubuntu AND I have urged the Ubuntu developers to make the installation "cleanly" install without affecting the /home directories. This is where Microsoft wins again! Look at Windows XP for example. It was released in 2001 and it is *still* supported by Microsoft until April 2014: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173 Users don't have to upgrade Windows just to use a newer versions of most programs, except for some newer games, which require Windows Vista or Windows 7. I really wish I could print this whole comment and discuss it with the Ubuntu team and Mark Shuttleworth. It would be BRILLIANT if more and more people used Ubuntu instead of Windows, but that won't happen until these problems are addressed. To finish this comment, I must say the security in Ubuntu is excellent and more user-friendly than Windows i.e. in Ubuntu, you just need the right password, from the user who has sufficient privileges. -- 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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