Comment 1081 for bug 1

I dont think you did any reading up on the mp3 issue or on the driver
issues.

1. We cant ship mp3's by default because its expensive. We are a free
OS, windows costs at least €100 so they can afford to ship it because
its included in the price. So dont complain its not hard to install
(just try to play an mp3 and it will find and install the codec in a few
seconds)

2. You say "linux on the other hand has outdated, imo poorly supported
device drivers". We support a lot more drivers out of the box than
windows. You just didnt see the notification saying "installing drivers"
on windows. The main driver problem on ubuntu at the moment is graphics
drivers but there are drivers available but you have to install them. We
support a lot more devices than windows and most of the time they work
better on ubuntu. On the "outdated and the poorly supported" we are very
actively supported billions are spent each year by Intel, Novell, IBM,
The linux foundation..etc so that is a load of crap. Go read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel and stop saying ill informed
nonsense.

I dont think you understand what we are doing here, we are offering
something free to world and if you have a problem with something you can
fix it simple as that. We have limitations to what we can ship in the
default distro but we put whatever we can. Better drivers comes with
market share. We wont ship mp3 codecs or any other patented codecs.