Originally Posted by Katsunami
There is another point that many computer enthusiasts often miss, especially with regard to printers and camera's. 'Normal' people often buy a printer or camera because it can do some "special" stuff, such as print onto CD's, create calendars, or photo-albums, or whatever. The catch is, you need the manufacturer's software to do this if you want wizards and automatic stuff and templates and all that. This software is available for Windows and Mac only, most of the time; sometimes not even for Mac.
Believe it or not, but there are a lot of people who *WANT* to use the manufacturer's software (or even need to, because they don't have anything else), and when running Linux, they'll hit a brick wall.
*After the Ubuntu setup wizard...*
"OK, nice. The test page works. Now where is my calendar creation program mentioned on the box? Hm. Maybe it's on the CD."
*Pops in CD*
*Double-clicks setup.exe*
*** ERROR ***
* Hear a cry of despair and a dying wail as the user flings himself and the computer out of a fifth story apartment window *
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