Comment 103 for bug 554172

Hi Joel,

Thank you for your very well written comments. I've been using Ubuntu for about 15 months. I've migrated everything to Ubuntu except my video editing and a Windows forms program. I do a lot of picture editing and some websites, as well as sell real estate and farm. I've installed Ubuntu on 20 different computers. For the power save problem I turn the power save off even though I wish it would work. The cream colored background issue has been fixed. The cups issue has been major, but for me personally it is a nuisance. I can live with it until it is fixed. For a co-worker in the office who I'm trying to convince to like Ubuntu and Linux, having his machine as one where the printers don't work is a major issue with him. But quite honestly when I found that the openoffice spell checker was non-functional on my own machine, and then checked a second machine and it had the same issue, and then checked on line and found others having the exact same issue, I was just dumbfounded that something like this could ever slip by and be released. Most of the people who I've installed Ubuntu for would never understand how to install the openoffice.org version. This kind of problem with the spell checker is something that reflects badly on openoffice, Ubuntu, and Linux. I tried installing several additional different packages from synaptic. That didn't help. At that point I gave up and went to openoffice.org. I didn't have time to play with something that should have never been broken in the first place. But for me to try to explain to the first time user why a spell checker goes through the motions but doesn't do anything is beyond anything I can do.

My printers did show up on this computer tonight. But the next time they don't I will do what you suggested. I'm comfortable running the command line as long as someone tells me what to enter!