Comment 7 for bug 435930

My mother hit this bug this week when a cousin came home for an afternoon of work and the next day... it was all gone!
They called me and I thought: it makes sense, Mac OS guest session also deletes everything, maybe they didn't read the warning... but let me check. WHAT? No warning anywhere. Hard to defend a design decision like this...

Then I thought: maybe it's because their system is using 11.10, for sure it must be resolved now and I can defend my beloved Ubuntu. Silly me! This bug, which is probably ridiculously easy to solve (**2 dialog boxes**), is opened since 2009, and not only that... in Launchpad it is considered a "nice to have". Left me speechless.

I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and I love how it has progressed, it's so polished now and so friendly *on the surface* for even the most unexperienced users [ok there's the Unity love/hate thing]. I thought it had managed to merge the best of the Open Source philosophy with a strong user-oriented product vision, and that it would only be a matter of time that people would see this, maybe with Ubuntu running on their phones, same as the iPhone brought people to OSX. But I was wrong, otherwise this would be a critical-level bug and no new distro would ship without it fixed.

Now you can say: why don't you fix it yourself, this is how OpenSource works, etc, etc. But please note:
1) AFAIK some people are paid to work on Ubuntu,
2) gunnarhj **already solved this bug** in his Forums thread as a comment **from 2010** points out. All it takes is a Product Owner / UX manager to say: bring it in. But I guess that figure doesn't exist (I thought it was Mark S.) and so the user experience for people who don't know what 'sudo' is suffers and Ubuntu/Linux remains a niche OS for the geeks.

Best wishes,
Arnau