Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Nov 2005 10:12 UTC, submitted by Justin
"I have always wondered what is it that makes people embrace Ubuntu over other Linux distributions. After some pondering, it struck me that the unique selling point of Ubuntu is its user friendliness. Ubuntu is a distribution targeted at the non-techie crowd - those that want to get their job done and not spend time tinkering with the OS. And consequently, the developers at Ubuntu have bundled simple easy to use GUI front end tools to achieve common system administration tasks. Here I have put together 10 things in Ubuntu that make a new user's life that much simple."
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RE: software installation not easy
by seguso on Mon 28th Nov 2005 17:28
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> I want linux to have just enough users that hardware
> developers will write drivers for us.
One problem is that Linux may never reach sufficient market share to convince vendors to produce FREE drivers.
(Proprietary drivers are considered a violation of Linux copyright.)
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2005-10-11
This is a FREE in both aspects disto. Those complaining about it not having flash have you donated time or money to the developers of gplflash or java? Also those talking about being user friendly and attracting the "average joe" I dont want all the "average joe" windows users migrating to linux let ms have them.
I want linux to have just enough users that hardware developers will write drivers for us.