Comment 507 for bug 1

" What should happen:
    1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu."

Why? People are happy to pay for the complete bundle including Windows. If people weren't happy to pay extra for commercial software, they would complain. The only people I hear complaining are Linux geeks.

    "2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all."

So, who's going to fund that? And what are these amazing benefits and features anyway?

Myself and my 5 colleagues have been using Ubuntu for 3 months now for Java Development and every single morning we each waste between 10 and 30 minutes trying to get the damn thing connected to our WPA2-protected wireless network instead of the unsecured wireless network on the floor below that belongs to a different company which Ubuntu seems to connect to by default. What's the benefit of automatically connecting to the first unsecured wireless network you find? I see that as a major security flaw and, in the UK where it is a criminal offence to connect to a wireless network without prior permission (see articles on BBC News website about this), it lays Ubuntu users wide open to allegations of stealing network access. So Ubuntu fails before I've even managed to get any work done.

And why does everything run so slowly? Firefox takes nearly a full minute to load on a laptop with an Intel 1.66GHz Core Duo and 2GB RAM.

    "3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes."

Quite. But at the moment, this is still an operating system for Unix nerds. I've used Windows, Linux, Solaris and OS X as desktop operating systems and I don't really see any as being significantly better or more secure than any other. So far, Windows and OS X come way out top for usability and interoperability while Linux trails far behind with Solaris.