Comment 554 for bug 1

 No report from Spain so far?... well, here is one. This "bug" is widely spread over here, although things are going better:

- Some 50% among my colleagues and friends (mostly engineers) know about linux, and some 15% have a distro installed. Although usually as a secondary option, in a smaller partition than windows... but it's a start point.
- On the other hand, I've found in my town (medium size, 400k inhabitants) several shops shipping linux in their computers, as an option. One has to ask for it, no advertisements, but I got surprised anyway. I thought there was no option but MS in my town.
- Several official entities have adopted linux as their OS. For example, the region of "Castilla -La Mancha" has officially promoted a distro called Molinux, based on Ubuntu 7.10 !!!!! A big step. Please see http://www.molinux.info

I came here after using MS since the very begining of DOS (25+ years ago?). Now I wanted an option to get a bit apart of forced expensive updates (or piracy-guilty feelings), viruses, uniformization, etc, and heard about that free-software movement. I like it, and I choose Ubuntu as my gateway to that world. Thus I'd like to help with some positive criticism:
--> Keep it stable! The user thinks "I'm on linux, this is extremely robust". But I experienced system crashes doing routine tasks, as logging as another user, or powering off the system.
--> Enhance partnership/relationship with software developers. The main reason for me to continue using XP (to my regret) is that quality software for editing musical scores, sound recording/editing/sequencing, and the like, are not supported in linux. The same applies for many other specialized tasks, important to other people. (I know, is propietary software... but worth it at the moment).
--> Keep on the way of making it more and more user-friendly.

...Well doing my best to fix the bug in my neighbourhood ;-)
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