Ubuntu is great, but still needs some work

[juxtaposed]

I'll go with everyone else and hope it's not serious

[reyfer]

A great piece of sarcasm

On the other hand, if this was meant to be serious, changing Microsoft Windows XP for Ubuntu Windows XP is plain genius

[Yaffle]

Woah.... What a load of crap, So this guy is basically telling us to create a clone of XP?
I was once a XP user I switched to Ubuntu with not problems. It took my a while to get used the hole system but overall I love it.

[allix]

My emotions are running rampant right now, I don't really know what I show do. Should I laugh? Should I cry? Should I try to get this guys home-address, get over there and smack him over the head...? Should I call his mom?

[Rab22]

I hope this isn't serious as well.


But I have to agree, it's hard to tell.

[karellen]

I needed a good laugh sunday evening

[Stew2]

I hope he's joking cause Tux's feelings are really hurt! (he's quite sensitive you know)

[BackwardsDown]

1- Tux as a logo is just stupid
Luckely for you ubuntu doesnt use tux very much, rather their own logo.

2- Ubuntu should use NTFS as filesystem
Let's just use our own (better) filesystems.

3-The ubuntu installer should default to 'dual boot' with XP.
When ubuntu sees that XP is installed it should be default yes. But grub doesn't need to default to xp, rather make a simple gui so you can edit that manually.\

4- Canonical should sell Ubuntu in stead of giving it away.
Bad idea.

5- Always be root.
Even worse.

6- All hardware should be supported out of the box.
Last time I checked linux supported more hardware out of the box than windows. And the dev's are working hard on this. But instead I think we should sell more preinstalled ubuntu-pc's, with that the most problems are pretty much solved.

7- Anti-virus software installed by default.
That's lame, we dont need it yet. Also I think writing a fix for the bug that the virus is exploiting is much faster than writing a virus definition for it.

8 - Reboot and Defrag.
A defrag for ext3 could be handy, altough it is not very needed. And not needed for the normal user. Users should not be bothered with this kind of stuff. We should just say that ubuntu defrags itself once in a while

9- executables should be executable.
Yes, I find this chmod thing also a bit in-intuitive.

10- Ubuntu should default to an XP-like look-and-feel
Ubuntu is ubuntu, and xp is xp. Do not change that, people will think the operating system works the same becouse it looks that way. And that isn't the case, and that never will be the case.

11- A less confusing file system hierchy.
Users should not be bothered with the system hierchy in the first place, except for /home.

otherwise I'll just stick with XP. It's up to you.
If you want windows, use windows. If you want to use ubuntu, use ubuntu. It's up to you.

[notwen]

Another one of these posts rambling about making Ubuntu more Windows-like... it boggles the mind. =x If Windows users are wanting a linux alternative, Ubuntu may or may not be for them, the key-word is "alternative" not "Windows". If you're wanting all these features, here's an idea, try a different distro or simply stick w/ Windows. In my experience you either deal w/ the slight learning curve or you don't and fall back to what you know(majority atleast) and re-install Windows. I myself enjoy the learning curve, kinda reminds me when I upgraded from Win3.1 to Win95. *cackles* =]

[Sweet Spot]

I'd just like to say that :

1) The OP can't be serious.

2) The OP has WAAAAY too much time on his hands, and should consider doing charity work somewhere rather than putting together silly posts as such.

3) If on the off chance that the OP was actually serious, I'd like to just tell him/her:

Jump off of the nearest bridge, and make the world a better place for the rest of us sane people to live in !