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The main problem with Linux: ignorant users

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http://www.itwire.com – Last month, when the debate about the change in the position of window buttons in the next release of Ubuntu was at its height, I wrote a piece headlined "Ubuntu users, Shuttleworth doesn't owe you anything." (IT news)

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The ongoing debate over the change in the position of the window buttons in the upcoming Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, reminds one that Linux users possess one awful characteristic in spades - a sense of entitlement.

Much has been discussed recently over the location of windows buttons [ Maximize, Minimize, Close. etc ] in the upcoming release of Ubuntu Lucid [10.04].

Some of you may already know about Ubuntu's decision to put their Window buttons to the left. Debates sprouted about democracy, design and other existential questions.As you can see here, window buttons moved to the left in Ubuntu's new GTK theme. What strikes me in this is not only all the fuss around the maybe now famous bug #532633, but why Ubuntu did so? 

try to switch from windows to lucid lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) where they might feel this problem. Yes, in Lucid Lynx the close, minimize, maximize buttons appears in the left side by default after you upgraded or newly installed ubuntu 10.04. Generally Mac OS users are pretty much familiar with this type of window control method and access.

When I go to the https://panopticlick.eff.org/ from my Ubuntu and click the "Test me", this comes up:

and if I use this test from an OpenBSD 5.2/fvwm:

( 2355.33 / 316202.5 ) * 100 = 0.745

So if there would be 100 Ubuntu users in the world, then there are 0.745 OpenBSD users (who is using GUI)

Q: That means that there are ~~50 000 000 Ubuntu users* (just a tip) then there are 372 500 Open

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