Comment 434 for bug 1

If we keep thinking in this alley wse won't get anywhere.

Some people say 'don't force it on people', while M$ does, succesfully
Some people say 'ubuntu leaves space for other OS's', while M$ doesn't,
succesfully,
Some people say 'we aren't doing anything wrong', while M$ does, but they
still are succesful

;-)

it hurts but it's the truth, we must dare to play that role too, plain
simple.

I think that we just don't have a clear strategy to build on...

On 8/3/07, Mertiki <email address hidden> wrote:
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> I think that Microsoft and Linux Ubuntu aren't on the same egal ground
> to this point.
>
> Microsoft Windows will NEVER give the choice to a user to dual boot with
> another system but Ubuntu will.. but we shouldn't expect Ubuntu to be
> completely flawless when working with closed technologies that they
> didn't invented ( like FAT32 or NTFS ), it's already a miracle that
> Linux can work with NTFS partitions, I think that this should be always
> improved but we can't expect it to work without risks, even in Microsoft
> installer anyway. And the RAID drivers you got for Windows, does the
> producer of your RAID makes drivers for Linux?? I have doubts.
>
> I agree with you to say that Linux Ubuntu should be more "all working in
> few easy automatics steps" and I think that it already beat Microsoft on
> some point with installation because Linux detect everything and make
> all works when drivers exists. The bitter point is that Ubuntu have
> access to a restricted driver list, this would be a very important point
> to be improved! I don't personnaly know about RAID 0 so maybe that
> Ubuntu have to make some works on this. And I TOTALLY agree that there
> should be a REALLY more easy way to manage dual boot in Linux, editing
> /boot/grub/menu.lst isn't pretty user friendly.
>
> But I don't think that you can install Microsoft Windows without loosing
> all your data, except with another partition which will not be erased,
> but that's all the same for Windows or Linux.
>
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> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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