Comment 794 for bug 1

I have been following the discussions of this bug with some amusement for the last couple of months. I amnot a developer, just a semi-literate computer user who has no interest in coding,only in the best possible functionality from my computers. I tend to leave the coding to those with the talent and interest in that area

I have four computers in my house, of which only one iuses Ubuntu as its operating system. The rest, including my new computer, use Vista, noy because I prefer Vista to Ubuntu, but because some of the most important programs we use take a great deal of coding skill to get them to work in Ubuntu, especially the RPG games like World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights.

As I said Iam not a coding expert, but I do have a fairamount of marketing expertise, having been in sales and marketing for most of my adult life [I am 60]. Bg #1 will not be fixed until the Ubuntu community makes a major marketing shift away from focusing on the technically-oriented population to focusing on converting the semi-literate computer users that comprise the vast majority of Windows users.

The attraction of Windows - which is the weakness of Ubuntu -is that it requires little effort on the part of the user to configure it to rum whatever programs the semi-literate computer user wants. Until the developers who work on Ubuntu are willing to design Ubuntu to do that, Microsoft will always have the lion's share of the market.

To be honest though,I see little interest or commitment on the part of the Ubuntu community to do that So, this bug should probably be closed beause a guf is something that cab and will be fixed. I don't see a fix for this bug as ever happening.