Comment 1086 for bug 1

I must admit that this bug is so big that probably will take a while to solve...{if}. Anyway, as for my self, I am Italian but live in London with my family from many years now. I have tried to source among the people that I know or I meet regularly, surprisingly most of them have no idea of what Linux / Ubuntu is all about.

  -- Answers I got when I asked what linux was?

1- I normally use Hotmail
2- I don't need antivirus
3- is a version of Apple

While I do believe that there is a lot of confusion and fuss about what linux does and is, I have come to the conclusion that a great amount of people can't even distinguish what is the difference between an Operating System and a Web Browser. What I envision for the future of Linux and Open source is to spread more and more in to schools and college so that students can come across it on early stages, if you ask the average guy of my age, [I am 40], you will see the expression of his face changing a bit in to a question mark. At some point I have sourced differently by going out in main shopping street and visiting computer shops and electronics to see who and where was selling PC or Laptops with Linux pre installed, and, a part for a few very basic linux editions for cheap netbooks, I haven't seen anything of the flavour of Ubuntu coming installed in brand new machines. I would like to extend this opportunity to anyone as firmly interested as me and do it ourself. It would be fantastic to open a shop where a client pays for the hardware not for the software, or where a client buys a PC and a full OS dvd is given together for backup and restore.