Comment 4 for bug 223436

I disagree with the last two commenters.

First, though I agree that the article certainly does not represent a scientific usability study, I don't think that fact makes the result useless. The writer learned about some of Ubuntu's weaknesses from his experience with his girlfriend, and we can learn from that without having the same things verified n more times. Most of the ideas discussed aren't highly specific and wouldn't be hugely disruptive to address in some manner - thus, though the testing is not of the highest quality, I think the "bugs" are still valid.

I also disagree that the only fixable bug is the Transmission one. The fact that many Pidgin users won't know what a "screen name" or "local alias" are is very real, for example. I can confirm that bug absolutely, having introduced many friends to Pidgin on Windows. The screen resolution bug is absolutely a fixable problem. In general, I think all of them are fixable with the possible exception of YouTube, but even then I bet there's enough ingenuity in the Ubuntu developer community to find a fix for that.

So, mark this bug invalid if it's truly not useful to the Ubuntu community - but I think it would be a shame to ignore this request for improved usability for whatever lame reasons.