Comment 1328 for bug 1

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:58, Graham <email address hidden> wrote:
> My Gran always warmed to pot before brewing tea.
>
> I have made her tea several times without warming the pot.
> She never complained about my tea, in fact she said it was quite nice.
>
> She saw me doing it once and complained.
> "But I never warm the pot, Gran"
>
> Did she:
> A. Complain that she always thought there was something wrong with my cups of tea.
> B. Decide that warming the pot didn't seem necessary and not do it in future.

I rather think that she was just polite by telling you that your tea
is "quite nice". When she complained she finally found, what you are
doing wrong. ;-) - SCNR.

Moral: Things seeming unlogical first, might become quite logical when
you know all the details.

And regarding Ubuntu: There are still many issues and basically Linux
applications are buggy in the same way as Windows applications are.
The architecture of the Linux OS is better than Windows IMHO (and of
course this is the opinion of many others too), but this is the good
thing that mostly just the admin cares of. Open Office has bugs and
annoyances also - I know it - I am a long-time user of both worlds. If
you know the details (and with "details" I mean the experience you get
when working in real environment on a day-to-day-basis), you see still
enough good reasons why people stick to Windows.

Ubuntu (or other Linux distributions - I consider Ubuntu the best on
the desktop together with Mint maybe that anyway is based on Ubuntu)
has still a long way to go to be the killer-OS. And only, when it gets
close to being the killer-OS then vendors will consider preinstalling
Ubuntu rather than Windows.

Regarding the hardware I am quite happy with certifications like those
given on the Ubuntu.com site at the bottom
(http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/ - already mentioned
earlier). The wiki also holds relevant information at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hardware. Or the list at
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatdb/vendors/hardware_linux.html is
also nice.
And with focus on printers http://www.openprinting.org/printers
So I will keep going with those so far.

--
Martin Wildam

http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam