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Comment #1872

Comment 1872 for bug 1

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Tom (tom6) wrote on 2013-06-07: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

#1872

Hi :)
Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or hand-held devices in your town! Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere.

Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk.

However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed. Quite the contrary!

Now is the time to really start working at it! Now that mobile devices and hand-helds have become so common-place it should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux friendly. Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i will be able to print from my Android. So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?" or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work network. Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?"

This demand needs to reach the OEMs. Stores need to know that they have got to start supporting Gnu&Linux = that there is demand for it and that the demand is growing.

Regards from
Tom :)

>________________________________
> From: Martyn Vallett <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:48
>Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
>
>
>I firmly believe that this bug is no where near being fixed!
>
>Things that need to be fixed:
>
>1. Quite a few of the OEM's still don't support Linux, and whenever
>drivers are asked for (I'm talking about items that aren't supported
>correctly by the kernel, such as my particular GPU.) they try to get you
>to use windows. I know this through experience! Now if bug 1 was truly
>fixed then I should have had no problem at all getting what I needed, or
>not to have needed to get the drivers in the first place.
>
>2. This has already been mentioned a lot but the retail stores dislike
>selling anything other than windows pre-installed.
>
>3. I've already mentioned this before but, we really need some
>advertising of some sort. I only know two people other than myself in my
>town that use Linux. Advertising/Public awareness could change that.
>
>I agree with PJO about the closure statement, It definitely sounded a
>bit odd.
>
>

Hi :)
Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or hand-held devices in your town!  Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere.

Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk.

However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed.  Quite the contrary!

Now is the time to really start working at it!  Now that mobile devices and hand-helds have become so common-place it should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux friendly.  Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i will be able to print from my Android.  So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?"  or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work network.  Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?"

This demand needs to reach the OEMs.  Stores need to know that they have got to start supporting Gnu&Linux = that there is demand for it and that the demand is growing.

Regards from 
Tom :)

>________________________________
> From: Martyn Vallett <1@bugs.launchpad.net>
>To: TomDavies04@Yahoo.Co.Uk 
>Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:48
>Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
> 
>
>I firmly believe that this bug is no where near being fixed!
>
>Things that need to be fixed:
>
>1. Quite a few of the OEM's still don't support Linux, and whenever 
>drivers are asked for (I'm talking about items that aren't supported 
>correctly by the kernel, such as my particular GPU.) they try to get you 
>to use windows. I know this through experience! Now if bug 1 was truly 
>fixed then I should have had no problem at all getting what I needed, or 
>not to have needed to get the drivers in the first place.
>
>2. This has already been mentioned a lot but the retail stores dislike 
>selling anything other than windows pre-installed.
>
>3. I've already mentioned this before but, we really need some 
>advertising of some sort. I only know two people other than myself in my 
>town that use Linux. Advertising/Public awareness could change that.
>
>I agree with PJO about the closure statement, It definitely sounded a 
>bit odd.
>
>