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Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched

Posted by kdawson on from the good-ideas-are-where-you-find-them dept.

thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so you can vote it up or down (you have to log in first). You can only click once per idea. So this is an easy way to submit ideas and see what people are really wanting."

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  1. Here are some ideas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. Don't brick a computer if the bootloader fails to install.
    2. Don't require a graphical interface to change the refresh rate that's set to a refresh rate out of range of the attached monitor.
    3. Don't crash the entire OS when windows are resized. (As in, complete crash: the display is frozen and pressing Capslock no longer changes the Capslock state.)
    4. Implement WPA support.
    5. Don't crash on install if the update servers can't be reached because of #4.
    6. Same as #5, but because there's a firewall and the proxy settings are apparently ignored.

    Fix those, and I might actually be able to install Ubuntu.

    1. Re:Here are some ideas... by Neil+Blender · · Score: -1, Troll

      Oh, my. Pointing out serious flaws in a linux distro is trolling. If it was 5 equally valid points about a Microsoft OS, it would be +5 insightful before you could blink.

  2. Re:Color by Goaway · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does it threaten your fragile sexuality, or what?

  3. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ubuntu is shit. After 10 years of using linux, I decided to check Ubuntu out. I installed on a test workstation I have at my desk. It was easy. However, I use synergy so I can use one keyboard and mouse for the 4 computers and one laptop at my desk. Download the source, but WHY THE FUCK CAN'T GCC COMPILE EXECUTABLES????????? I apt-getted my fucking ass off for the next two hours to get a working gcc. Fine. Same goes for a bunch of other shit. Doesn't work. apt-get this, apt-get that. The last straw was when I installed flash for firefox. Now firefox starts crashing every 5 minutes.

    I was so pissed that I didn't even bother wiping the drive. I changed the passwords, yanked the 200 Gig SATA drive and threw it in the trash. It angered me that much.

  4. Re:The point being.... by WillDeed · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem is - so far there has been no place except the forums for non-techies to participate and make their voices heard. I see four main categories of users:

    1. Developers. If they see a problem, they can code a patch if necessary.
    2. Technical users - these can test alpha and beta releases, and help locate bugs etc.
    3. Non-technical but internet-savvy users - if they report an issue, it's often a big, missing feature (like, "I want my webcam to work")
    4. Users that won't comment online in any case.

    There is currently no place for the third category. Dell realized that, and it's really a shame that the FOSS community took this long to realize that there is a need for structured feedback from category three.


    I don't think you're considering how diluted the help from the third category will be... For every accurate and truly missing feature request, you'll get 10 requests for "better myspace support" or get a bug report for some program because "I get a 'Permission Denied' error when I try to run 'make install'".

    Category three users are much more likely to report n00b questions than actual bugs/missing features.
  5. Re:Color by insertwackynamehere · · Score: 0, Troll

    On a color related note, they should have a pink theme. I showed some female co-workers all the different ways you could make Ubuntu look and all of them, without exception, flipped out when they saw pink; doubly so when it was pink and black. Until it's embedded in their washing machines and stoves, women shouldn't be using Linux, much less computers. What's next, letting them vote? And where does it go from there? Maybe they'll actually start hunting instead of just gathering!
  6. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't believe you actually scrapped a drive or that this happened though, just a bad troll.

    Does your Linux fanboyism blind you so much that you find it impossible that it may frustrate someone else?