Comment 916 for bug 1

In my opinion bug #1 should be:

"Catch up to functionality/user-friendliness of Microsoft or Mac"

that is if I am correct in understanding that you mean you want to gain market share when you report "microsoft hold on market" as bug #1

Are developers really that oblivious to the simple fact that the only thing that matters in gaining market share is 1) Make things work out-of-box--hardware, common softwares, 2) User-friendliness-- looks and functionality, 3) better features,

Ubuntu seriously lacks in user-friendliness/functionality that is found in Microsoft and apple. Few examples from my own experience of using Ubuntu for a year are: 1) Audio setup problem--alsa, pulse, etc is still not solved and that a 'proper' sound system doesn't work out of box like in win xp I had. I don't know what the problem is but it doesn't work Out-of-the-box. 2) featureless file browser compared to Finder in mac. 3) no control panel. 4) video player doesn't work out-of-box. etc. 5) Having to deal with terminal. I could go on for a few more.

These drawbacks of holding back Ubuntu to let users utilize and enjoy the "advanced" features that it offers--compiz is the only one that comes to my mind. Again, remember that if the user has to hassle around just to make an advanced feature work on OS, you can't call that an advanced feature! ie. an advanced feature that lacks an easy access by a regular (non-terminal user) user, it's basically non-functional. Do developers agree with me here?

The only praise I can give to Ubuntu is it's ideology of open and free software. Although the ideology provides greater freedom, unfortunately, it hasn't proven to be better than closed source in terms of making human-computer interface and experience easier, which is all that matters at the end of the day.