Browsing the internet could be much easier if you would not have to open up your webbrowser.

Empathy is not ready to be the default im application in Ubuntu because it misses a lot of functions and contains bugs that make it hard for newbies to use it especially for certain networks like icq.

LibreOffice is like OpenOffice a great tool. Besides other things it can manage templates. However, it is difficult to find the right templates on the web especially after the transition from OpenOffice to LibreOffice.

By now, we are getting to a point where more and more package descriptions are translated to other languages than English. This is a good thing, but may mislead users to believe that the applications which have a translated description might also be translated. Especially, because there is still some packages with English descriptions. But often the applications that go with the translated descriptions are not translated. The user, however, cannot see this problem until he/she as installed the concerned application. This leads to a lot of extra work to find the application that fits for a certain use, especially for non-English users.

When you enter your password incorrectly during login, you are punished with an unnecessarily long pause before you are allowed to re-enter your password.

When you download a package it often contains translations for several languages. Most users only need one or two of these languages though. Why not reduce the size that has to be downloaded by only downloading the translation files the user really needs.

Ubuntu, like other Linux Distributions, includes most of the applications you need in everyday life right from the start. This includes Multimedia applications like Brasero, Rhythmbox, PiTiVi and many more.

Since all these applications are preinstalled you would expect them to work properly and represent the best available. From personal experience with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx I can tell that this is not the case.

After Lucid was released Rhythmbox and F-Spot crashed very often on my System. These bugs had been fixed pretty fast but in my opinion a stable LTS release shouldn't have basic applications crash this way.

In addition to that, I was working on a Multimedia project a few days ago, which is almost 6 months after Lucid was published. At first, I had to face at least 3 bugs in PiTiVi which made it impossible to edit my video and audio clips and when I finally got it somehow worked out I couldn't (amongst others) burn it to a VCD because Brasero failed on me.

To figure out, how I can still get it to work and get my project on a VCD took me a whole lot of time. If you keep in mind that I was using only default, preinstalled applications, the release of Lucid is almost 6 months old and it is a LTS this is inacceptable.

Many useful applications are provide by the universe- and multiverse-repositories. However, if they contain bugs or incomplete features fixes may not be backported but often only are included in new releases of Ubuntu.

This is annoying if it's an application you really need and you have to build it from source or search for a fitting package on the internet.

Every time I use the GMail-Webinterface from a different computer that doesn't have Evolution (like a public computer) to send an email it is downloaded to the "Inbox"-folder by Evolution on my home computer if I am using POP3.

This might also apply to other Web-Services.

When you open the Ubuntu Software Center you see ALL the software that is provided by your repositories. This includes programms for KDE as well as those for Gnome or other desktop environments. If you're only using one desktop environment, let's say Gnome for example, you probably don't want to install those programms created for KDE because you would need a lot or most of the KDE packages to get the programm to work.