The bug: Microsoft has a majority market share in the desktop PC marketplace.
Ubuntu Linux is designed to fix this bug.
You are invited to submit your opinion on the topic of computers or reversing the Microsoft dominance in favor of Ubuntu Linux.
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In ways you are right, but it needs more than a Linux distro which is capable of functioning adequately as a desktop OS and is usable by most people, in order to break the Microsoft near-monopoly. For one thing, most people use Microsoft because it's what their computer comes with, or they use Microsoft because everyone else does, and they need something which is fully compatible with other people's file formats. Even if they do consider Linux, Ubuntu isn't the only obvious choice, and you have a number of distros
A number of things I suggest one could do as dictator:
1. Ban OEMs from including or installing Windows as standard, and ban OEM licences which make it economically viable to do so. If they offer to install Windows, they must also offer an alternative- Ubuntu perhaps.
2. Make the public sector/government departments migrate over to Linux and/or other open-source software. This at least ensures that the OS is 'out there' in the real world and being used, as well as lessening MS' market share directly.
This should include public schools, which should teach pupils Linux in computer studies classes.
3. Push for standards in things like the way packages are installed, across all major distros.
4. Major public awareness campaign, make people aware of Linux and dispel myths (like it's only a geek OS, not viable, too hard to use…)
Linux should definitely be used in public schools. The dumbest thing I ever did was not buying stock in Apple. Many years ago, I said to several friends that giving out Apple computers to schools was the smartest thing Apple could do and I thought Apple would replace Microsoft one day. While that hasn't quite happened, I would've been rich if I bought Apple stock.