How Come I Cannot Download the Latest Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop?

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 09:48 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 August 2015 at 09:38, Teo En Ming <teo.en.ming at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I went to the www.ubuntu.com web page, clicked and came to this page:
> [...]
> > There's no download button at all. Only a "Pay with Paypal" button.
> 
> A rather confusing page I agree, but if you click "Not now, take me to
> the download" it will download 14.04, which is the stable LTS version.
> To get 15.04 go to http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/

Maybe it's because I run with cookies and scripts disabled, but the page
was not confusing at all for me.

Obviously one ignores the "Buy Now" button and inspects the rest of the
page. After the briefest of brief searches[1] one locates a menu across
the top with "Download" clearly visible. Should one miss this menu item,
however, and scroll on down the page, one quite quickly locates a bloody
great big "Get Ubuntu Desktop" link down the bottom. If one somehow
avoids both those, and accidentally clicks on the "Server" or "Desktop"
menu item, one ends up in each case on a page with a prominent
"Download" button. and of course all these pages still have the menu
across the top.

I can't help feeling that if one is still confused after all that, one
may not be trying hard enough.

Or is it that people with scripts enabled get shunted into an
alternative Canonical universe?

Regards, K.

[1] RFDS pilot note in service log: "Left engine missing"
    Maintenance engineer signing off: "Engine located on left wing after
brief search" 

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