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Dell is offering new models based on Ubuntu (recently the XPS M1330 in a few countries), proof that the business model makes sense.

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2: I can't download individual songs. It wants me to download the album instead, which gets really annoying given limited bandwidth (and throttled torrents) and limited storage.
3: It loads the entire music database at startup, which is a waste of resources and causes it to hang a lot.




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It would be cool if Ubuntu had a similar app (maybe part of of the new Clock app) that indicated all the communities around the world where people are currently running K/X/Ubuntu. Now the points of light would just be that and you couldn't get any info about any user with Ubuntu or see computers that are currently off line but you could get a sense of how wide spread Ubuntu is and what are the main centres with Ubuntu users. This would also be a cool idea for a screen saver (you could even have a Folding@Home style display (minus the Folding stats of the app).

From a technical point of view all that would be needed is a central server (most likely one of the Ubuntu servers) that would get pings from active online Ubuntu computers that would say their timezone location (example America/New York). It would then send the stats for each community to any online computer which would display to the user. The service would be totally option and probably not turned on by default.

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It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

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http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pantallazo1lm4.png

This is just an idea, it could be really improved by real artists...

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This means that big computer manufacturers (dell, hp, lenovo...) will be pushed by the market to introduce more and more devices at affordable prices that supports this emerging (and sucessful!) way of interacting with computers.

Soon keybord and mouse will be just at archaeology museums... and I hope Ubuntu will be not with them, plenty of dust beside examples of cuneiform script :(




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It's better to understand the concept in the main image:

http://www.360desktop.com/

Already it is a little eye-candy but as option would be great!.

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