Comments on: A Fix for Ubuntu’s Marketing http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/13/a-fix-for-ubuntus-marketing/ Keeping you in the loop with up-to-date Linux news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Coward http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/13/a-fix-for-ubuntus-marketing/#comment-657 Coward Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:17:39 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/13/a-fix-for-ubuntus-marketing/#comment-657 Well, Ubuntu: As long as Ubuntu prefers to have a color scheme that many people reminds of a human turd, it will stand itself in its way. It is not enough to be technical superior - you also need to win the hearts of the average user. Please, Mark, give Ubuntu a nicer touch. Green, blue, orange, whatever - BUT NOT BROWN! Well, Ubuntu: As long as Ubuntu prefers to have a color scheme that many people reminds of a human turd, it will stand itself in its way.

It is not enough to be technical superior - you also need to win the hearts of the average user.

Please, Mark, give Ubuntu a nicer touch. Green, blue, orange, whatever - BUT NOT BROWN!

]]> By: Kim Briggs http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/13/a-fix-for-ubuntus-marketing/#comment-653 Kim Briggs Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:06:26 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/13/a-fix-for-ubuntus-marketing/#comment-653 It's hard to ignore the fact that within a few years Ubuntu linux has gone from "zero" to arguably the most popular linux distribution for newcomers. Then, to somehow turn this huge "positive" into some kind of a "negative" (i.e., something that needs to be "fixed") is Alice In Wonderland / Down The Rabbit Hole kind of stuff. Geez. It’s hard to ignore the fact that within a few years Ubuntu linux has gone from “zero” to arguably the most popular linux distribution for newcomers. Then, to somehow turn this huge “positive” into some kind of a “negative” (i.e., something that needs to be “fixed”) is Alice In Wonderland / Down The Rabbit Hole kind of stuff. Geez.

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