Canonical is pushing developers to make it easy to install an application by clicking a button on a website. This sure would have been a nice feature back when I started with Hardy - and its something Windows users have come to expect since at least Windows 2000 (if not earlier).
Sometimes I get to wondering what a distro like Ubuntu is trying to do. They seem focused on improving the PC experience for the average user (when they're not trying to distance Unity from Gnome Shell for its own sake) - and they've generally done a good job. Yet they don't seem to have any viable plan to increase the settings in which people will encounter Ubuntu in their everyday life, there's no reason to believe that manufacturers are going to start shipping Linux machines (Ubuntu or otherwise) without public demand, and the PC is going to start being a harder place for a user like me to install after the fact. Plus, all the smart money is moving away from the x86/AMD64 PC and towards ARM powered mobile devices - where iOS is increasingly dominant and Android serves the alternative market. So what the hell is their big picture objective? What's the ultimate vision for this thing?
But hey - I'll take whatever convenience I can get!
‘Download for Ubuntu’ Button Campaign | jonobacon@home
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