As a newbie in the Linux world, I'm not afraid of command line prompts but coming from a visual Apple, and once a long time ago MS, I miss a clearly laid out graphical interface that tells me what's going on.

It would a time saver to have a nice visual rendering of what the kernel saw at boot up (in my case, can't get a Creative Lab card working).

This would also hopefully allow you to turn on and off systems in a dynamically designed, hyper-threaded system.

Just a thought. Am I crazy?

To Run Optimus on Linux i need Bumblebee project. I have installed bumblebee before and it works i knw. But then why Ubuntu is suggesting Proprietary Nvidia Drivers(ie: Additional Driver) for Optimus Card. Knowing in any case suggested driver is not going to work and will crash the system.

My point is why suggest some thing which is not gonna work. And also I want to highlight that it also mentions that these drivers are Tested By Ubuntu Developer which is so deceiving.

In the new preview feature for Ubuntu 12.10 (under development of course) there is a button to directly install or uninstall apps. Such thing should be added to the quicklists of installed apps. So you can right-click on the icon of an installed app in the launcher (which is automatically added since 12.04) and select "Uninstall" to directly uninstall this app.

I think that the restricted-manager should show the Driver-Version. For example: I have installed the current ATI-Catalyst-Driver 12.6 from the ati-website and I want to check if Ubuntu has this Driver in their repository. I can't do this. I think it is important to show this information. Maybe somebody will fix it?


(Sorry for this bad english ;-) )

I need my application to uninstall completely. I would like the ubuntu software center to give me the option to uninstall completely any app.

Expansion of Add Remove Programs - show user-provided descriptions, feature lists, screenshots, comments, ratings, integration with launchpad. Initial page should be top-rated apps, or newest apps. Managed by a webapp?

Or... leave it as it is, but create a website displaying all the great software available for ubuntu including all the features mentioned above with apturl links to install.

From #4613 (merged):

It should be indicated how much I'll have to download to install something.

We have download limits here and well... quite often I exceed them. It would be useful to indicate how big the download is going to be.

Programs installed from the "Software Centre" are not always the latest versions available, unless the user installs a newer Ubuntu release - which may not be possible on some computers.

Starting with Ubuntu 12.04, LTS desktop releases of Ubuntu will be supported for 5 years instead of 3 years. During those 5 years, if programs installed from the Software Centre are not the latest versions available, people could end up installing programs that are a few YEARS out of date!

I have always wanted to switch to linux and I have been trying that for 10 years since redhat 2.0 but there are still a few issues that prevents me from switching.

One of this issues is the hard installation of programs, If I use software center, then when I type in the program I want, a lot of results come up and it is hard for me to choose which one i want, I think there has to be section highlighting and stating what is the program that I probably want, and then another section that show the rest of the available programs for the name that I just typed in.

if the program is a .deb, or .rpms, then double clicking on it should suffice (aka windows style), I have never been able to install a program by double clicking on it, usually I have to search endlessly on the internet forums to find a command that allows me to install it through the terminal, if you want ubuntu to be used by everyone IT GOTTA BE EASY TO USE, thats it, no command line involved (leave the terminal just for the programmers).

I am a programmer and I usually have a hard time doing basic things whenever I try a linux distro, therefore I end up going back to Windows, android seems to be the prefer system for smartphones, why? because there is no command line involved,

Also, packages that worked with one unbuntu version do not work with the following version, etc. I think there gotta be a constant way for programmers to write a software that is going to work with future versions of ubuntu too. i can still run programs that I used on windows 98!!!

Until those things are fixed, I cannot use ubuntu as my OS of choice, I am on ubuntu as I write this and I just spent 2h trying to install google chrome and took me a while to install amsn, and as I said i am a computer programmer with a BA in computer science so, I know it is not due to my lack of geek knowledge.

When installing software using Ubuntu Software Center the authenticate window that pops up should default to the active window.

It's counter intuitive to click install, the authenticate window pops up and when you start typing your password the authenticate window is not the default window. You have to click on the password box before you start typing.

I would like to see a menu again where you can add shortcuts of applications , determine their category and an option to make applications invisible. these days adding a shortcut for minecraft or a humble indie bundle game is a challenge within itself.