Comment 69 for bug 1

I agree with Geeman. However, there are two other issues:

- As the developers at openoffice.org have learned, compatibility with the Microsoft world is a critical success factor for any initiative planning to give Microsoft a fight. Launchpad is full of bugs affecting compatibility issues and those issues pop up on ubuntuforums, but according to discussions on launchpad, Ubuntu developers don't seem to consider those issues as high priority.
A point in case: In current Dapper, Windows networking has been broken as a whole for quite some time (the root course could be a problem in winbind, see bug #39990). As of today, access to network shares and printers via smb is not possible and firefox aborts if I try to access a web site on a Windows machine running apache.

- Another problem is peripherals - the choice is much more limited than in Windows and it is a pain to install drivers not shipped with Ubuntu.(look for Minolta printers in the bug list on launchpad).

Regards

Erich