Comment 3 for bug 11414

I've installed Ubuntu for a few Windows users. It brought a smile to my face
when a couple of them independently decided that the coolest thing about this
new OS was, of all things, the smart tab completion in bash (which I tend to
enable myself system-wide after the installation).

People are used to swish graphics, sounds and fancy desktop managers but people
using Linux for the first time seem to be most impressed by little features like
this.

When you type 'ifup' and hit tab, getting a list of files in your home directory
for completion is silly when you can get a list of interfaces that can be
brought up. It just makes things work the way you'd expect. It's intuitive.

Enabling this by default seems like a great idea. If there are performance
issues (I've never noticed), this might act as a catalyst for people to optimise
the feature. Let's not be so conservative!