" What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like
Ubuntu."
Why? People are happy to pay for the complete bundle including Windows.
If people weren't happy to pay extra for commercial software, they would
complain. The only people I hear complaining are Linux geeks.
"2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing
features and benefits would be apparent and known by all."
So, who's going to fund that? And what are these amazing benefits and
features anyway?
Myself and my 5 colleagues have been using Ubuntu for 3 months now for
Java Development and every single morning we each waste between 10 and
30 minutes trying to get the damn thing connected to our WPA2-protected
wireless network instead of the unsecured wireless network on the floor
below that belongs to a different company which Ubuntu seems to connect
to by default. What's the benefit of automatically connecting to the
first unsecured wireless network you find? I see that as a major
security flaw and, in the UK where it is a criminal offence to connect
to a wireless network without prior permission (see articles on BBC News
website about this), it lays Ubuntu users wide open to allegations of
stealing network access. So Ubuntu fails before I've even managed to
get any work done.
And why does everything run so slowly? Firefox takes nearly a full
minute to load on a laptop with an Intel 1.66GHz Core Duo and 2GB RAM.
"3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time
passes."
Quite. But at the moment, this is still an operating system for Unix
nerds. I've used Windows, Linux, Solaris and OS X as desktop operating
systems and I don't really see any as being significantly better or more
secure than any other. So far, Windows and OS X come way out top for
usability and interoperability while Linux trails far behind with
Solaris.
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