Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly-ish summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.

Not All Good

While an option like this might help with some screen resolution issues, it would also make the bootup and installation a lot harder. Perhaps a better options would be to offer the same options, but only under some sort of advanced tab. (Also winner of the like more grammarily challenged brainstorm awardy-thingy.)

Really Brilliant

Many of the hardware problems people have could be solved much more easily if they were directed to a page with all the information relating to various possible solutions. While including all this information in the OS would be very hard, Ubuntu could just give a link to a wiki page for any unsupported hardware. Perhaps this could even be a cross-distribution project?
I really like the idea of setting up some annual awards for the best Linux applications and developments, though I would also add awards for cool Linux hardware (everything form Chumy to small Linux computer vendors like System76.) Also, this could be joint sponsored by Ubuntu and other distributions.
My guess is that there are a lot of people who would love to help out with Ubuntu, but don’t want to seek out how they could help best. Introducing a form where people could fill out what their skills are and have others suggest places where they could help out (and possibly volunteer to mentor the person) would bring in lots of new contributers.
Sometimes the best ideas are hidden down in the comments. In cases like this, and just in general, it would be extremely useful to be able to vote down unhelpful or uninteresting comments and vote up the really cool comments.
As I said above, the best ideas can often be in the comments, so being able to vote on changes to an original idea could really refine ideas and make them truly great.
This is just cool. See an example here. My only concern is that it could be distracting, but that is why it would just be an option, not a requirement.

This does not have to be the only option for installing fonts, but it should definitely be one of them.

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