IssuesAsNoviceUbuntuUser
- Command Line is still needed for some tasks
Ubuntu is an awesome step forward to a command line less environment. But still from now to then the command line is required to perform simple tasks. The most common for a novice Ubuntu user is installing a downloaded package (i.e. one you didn't aquire via synaptic, but direct download). dpkg -i [bla] should really be wrapped by a graphical interface like gdeb.
- Fonts and Icons are rather huge compared to Windows / Mac.
Especially on 1024x768 the fonts and icons are too big for users that switch from Windows. It gets even worse when running gaim or looking at Ubuntus Install/Remove software program.
- Fonts look bad when not anti aliased
Windows users are used to crisp fonts. Anti aliased fonts look quite blurry, but if you switch off anitaliasing the default font (Sans) get's really ugly. Especially at smaller sizes (<= 12).
- System settings are in three different menus
System->Settings System->System Management Applications->System Tools
- Links in x-chat won't open up in firefox as left-klick default.
They just don't work. Although rightklick->Firefox->Open in new tab works (open in existing won't).
- Set up as default in /etc/default/rcS "FSCKFIX=yes"
This is so normal users are not confused about any filesystem corruption reports that they then have to figure out how to fix. Any "power users" can set this back to "No" if they need to, but it would make life with Ubuntu a lot better for 99% of us.