Congrats on the new press!

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 07:36:17AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 15:56 -0400, Monkey Boy wrote:
> > NY Times article about Ubuntu on the new Dells.
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04basics.html
> > 
> > They even link to the Ubuntu home page for downloads.
> 
> And to Automatix. "To watch a movie, the Linux user must install
> necessary codecs, or decoders. One way to do that is to first download a
> program called Automatix from www.getautomatix.com."
> 
> It's incredible how pervasive this meme is, and since Feisty the codec
> things even works automatically for most things (except DVD, and there
> is a 2-line command right there in the Ubuntu help in the System menu).
> 
> It just seems to never go away, and new users will keep to get burnt.
> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html

I think this has partly to do with users of Windows being used to 
searching the web and downloading stuff, then installing.

I suspect that it never occurs to some reviewers to simply try playing 
something... if they did, they would discover the automated codec 
installs.

On the other hand, they would also see unfortunate names like 
"gstreamer-plugins-bad" "gstreamer-plugins-ugly" and so on - not to 
mention repeated warnings about unsupported software.

We can't win, really... there will always be *something* to 
criticise...

Peter