Comment 1109 for bug 1

Hi :)

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I think the best time to get your bug-reports noticed is during beta testing for an LTS so try a LiveCd
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
or add 1 partition to your dual/multi-boot & see if your existing bugs are still a problem. If they are then add Lucid 10.04 to releases affected at the top. See how many machines you can try the LiveCd on & see if friends or colleagues are interested in trying a pre-release sneak preview ;) (they prolly would for a movie?)

I think the biggest problem for linux is that mostly when you first want to try it you have to do some of the trickiest, most complex stuff just to install it. After a successful install you don't need to use any of that expertise. So people need to be expert before they can just demo it!! Luckily the LiveCds step in but many users are scared of messing with the bios ...

By comparison Windows is installed by teams of experts on batches of identical machines in the only arrangement that Windows can handle, 1 partition on 1 drive. They have to do endless amounts of tweaks, and reboots and updates and reboots and upgrades and reboots and updates again and reboots. Even then there is a failure rate with machines being ditched or sent back to the start or off-loaded. All this on machines that have manufacturers providing drivers & full support. None of this gets seen by wide-eyed-end-users.

I know someone that runs a computer recycling place where they take machines that are no longer top-end and sometimes sort the hardware a little. They find that ON AVERAGE its about 60hours to get a machine fully working under Windows. The weeu then say they prefer Windows because it "just works" "out of the box"

My machine flies along with linux, i would hate it to only "just work"

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)