[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

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Olá Adrien e a todos.

On Friday 23 May 2008 07:45:06 Adrien Cordonnier wrote:
> IMHO, this alone won't fix the bug because if you buy a laptop to
> install Ubuntu, it is likely to be pre-installed with Windows, so
> Windows market share is unchanged. The only bugfix I can see is being
> able to refuse Windows EULA and get refund for unused Windows licences

It took me 3 months to choose a brand new laptop, since I wanted one that would not bring a pre-installed proprietary OS.
After I bought it, I found out that I couldnt use my wifi card (an Intel agn 4965). After much looking in google, ubuntu wiki, Launchpad, forums, I ended up on several dead ends.
Finally I found a bug tracker for IntelLinuxDrivers but even that didnt fix my problem.
So I opened up a LP Question (#32865) but that didnt help much, and after a bit of talk with the only person interested in helping, I converted it into a bug ticket.

So to answer to your email, to me, the problem is not to get a PC/Laptop with free (as in Libre) OS, but hardware support. I now have this laptop for 3 weeks and am still unable to use the wifi card. For many ppl this would be a strong argument to not use Ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux OS.
Still I use it every day, as the single OS installed on my machine, and still promote Ubuntu every day to anyone I can, give initiation courses to regular users, bug store managers to pre-install Ubuntu and so on.

Now are you or anyone else on this huge bug report, able to take a look
at this ticket of mine and help me continue to promote Ubuntu the best
way possible so we can make it BETTER and used by more PEOPLE (more
market share)?

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/32865

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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