Comment 76 for bug 57153

This event probably has done very serious harm to the migration to linux from Windows. All of us using this forum are using another operating system as well as Ubuntu or are knowledgeable enough about linux to operate in the text mode. My guess is that most people who choose Ubuntu have no idea of how to use linux in the text mode. Ubuntu's simple graphical installation is why people pick it over Debian; you get Debian quality with ease of installation. Therefore, it is my further guess that many people who made Ubuntu their only operating system had no access to information on how to fix the bug, leaving them to reinstall while losing all files and bookmarks. Since Ubuntu is the number one system in Distro Watch, this failure discourages the use of linux. If ever there was a critical bug, it was this one.