Comment 354 for bug 1

Hi i am from Portugal!
I use Windows daily, and you want to know why i dont use Linux ( i say linux not Ubuntu because this bug applyes to the Linux community not only Ubuntu ) ?

Well first because my modem is very hard to get it to work ( the so know SpeedTouch 330 gray, worse my isp uses PPPoE/Bridging ), you have to do some strange stuff to get it working.
But then i have a WinTV usb FM card, and its hard as hell to get it to work with Radio and TV ( i haven't been able to do it yet )

In windows i just have to install the drivers and reboot

But the worse problem i face is:
I own a small shop and i have a Software for Point of Sale, the program is 10 years old ( although my pc is 3 years old... ) , its made in Visual Basic ( 5 i suppose... ), it uses a USB drive as a protection key ( this company is harder than M$ lol ), the program is buggy and it costed as much as 500€ ( it have to be signed by the government or something ) its made by Portuguese company.

So what have i thinked, lets try to run it over Wine, but it doesn't shown up i just see VB runtime errors etc, and i cant submit a bug cause no one can get the program for free or something

But ok i could get it to work on windows VMWare, but this is damn important stuff and i get scared to loose my precious Data

On my daily work i only use, apart from the POS soft, open source programs like Gimp, Inkscape, scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim ( theres no Kopete for windows :( ) etc...
So switching to Linux would be easy!

About Gaming... I dont game that mutch i am more a software developer ( the IDE's i use are cross plataform too ), but still theres nice cross plataform games that i run on my windows like xmoto, action cube, alienarena etc...

Also i was almost forget to mention that my GFX card is a Radeon 9200, wish dont have more suport for proprietary drivers, although the open source one works ok ( i wish i could get better resolution... )

I just got today my Kubuntu shipit cd ( i also got Ubuntu one some days ago ) and i put some stickers of Ubuntu that came in package on my pc and shop

So my road to Linux is going slowly, and i only have this pc here on my Shop ( its a small Shop and i have free time )
Also i wish that KDE was more suported by Ubuntu, When Ubuntu 7.04 went off, big annoucements ad site changes were made, for kubuntu just posted a annoucement, also well Kubuntu is a KDE operative system but why it cant come with GTK app's
Wheres Firefox, Thunderbird installed by default?
Ubuntu have some nice programs to configure system, put 3D desktop etc, why cant they be shiped with Kubuntu too?
So my shoice is, install ubuntu and do sudo apt-get install kde-core

About buying a pc on shop with ubuntu:
It wont happen here, not only ppl don't want Linux as sellers dont want to sell
Once i got a problem on my shop program and i needed to get assistense from teh sellers, they didn't liked to see that i had Linux installed( not ubuntu, a Portuguese distro called CaixaMagica )
This bug is far from being closed :(