cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:37AM +1000, Sasha Tsykin said:
>> it does not suit users of other Linuxes at all. When they use Ubuntu, 
>> they find they can't do anything which requires root privileges (because 
>> most of the time they have never even heard of sudo) and they just leave 
>> it and say "isn't that a crap distro." This has to change.
> 
> Uhm, we're the number one distro now.  I don't think they're swarming
> away from us in droves over this.  I think this is a case of Ubuntu
> ships a default that doesn't suit Sasha Tsykin.  That's OK; it also
> provides the tools to let you make it work your way, easily.
> 
>
When they hear about Ubuntu, they hear how good it is, when they try it 
they get the opposite impression. Most of Ubuntu's growth is from windows.

Sasha