Comment 126 for bug 1

This 'bug' you're talking about is 'by design', if I can say that. I studied IT on 286 computers with DOS on them, then Windows. I tried to switch to Linux many times, but every distribution comes with at least one obvious problem that's very hard to solve by a beginner. Let me give you just a few examples:
- Mandrake 8, 9 and 10: none of them was able to recognize properly my Lucent Winmodem (the only Winmodem officially supported in Linux) - never fixed even by people with experience in Linux
- Redhat (cant remember version) failed to work with USB devices 5 years after USB was implemented in Windows 98
- Ubuntu - cannot use my HP PSC multifunction printer, Midnight commander still shows crap in console mode
- Freebsd - most user unfriendly OS

These are maybe things that a Linux expert could fix easily, but hey, you want a regular user to love a OS that doesn't help him very much.
I've seen 8 yrs old kids installing Windows XP themselves, including printer, video, etc. just because it's all very easy to setup. Want them to swithc to a OS that has almost no games and it's a real adventure to configure? I think THIS is Linux's biggest bug - wasn't build for users who want a computer help do their job, but for people who accept to be computer's slaves.