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As good as launchpad is the non geek will probably not seek it out, register their email and make their suggestions. The same is true of the ubuntu forums.

What I suggest to combat this and get data from real world users is a built in reporting form in ubuntu.

This would be only be triggered if the computer has internet access and after the user account is more than 3 months old.

How it would work.
This notification would appear a few minutes after log in sayin 1f40 g something like.

"You have been using Ubuntu for over 3 months now.
We would like to know what you think about it.
Click here if you would like to help improve ubuntu."

If the user wants to help, a form appears that feedback and suggestions can be entered into. This feedback could then be sent to developers, a website or cleverly formatted and posted to lauchpad. Where this information goes I haven't thought through fully. However, this information would be very important as it should show what the less geeky ubuntu users thought about the OS after a few months of usage.

What do people think about this?

Then it will come up and say "Where did you get this copy of ubuntu, is it genuine?!" :O

Just because it's free, doesn't mean it has to be genuine. <_< ( We are all victims of cause-reality. )

Moved to Idea Pool.

It sounds like something Windows would do.
If they can't figure out even the forums, then maybe they shouldn't use Linux.

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This is exactly the kind of "feature" I would not like to see. I want to use my computer without these kind of interruptions. There are already processes in place to get feedback from users. Users need to start taking responsibility for learning to to use the tools provided instead of always ignoring them and wanting something different. Yes, choice is good, but you don't always need to ivent 12 different ways of doing something.

I too like Ubuntu as it is, with no intrusive messages thrown at the user unless absolutely needed. This is actually a conscious design consideration in Ubuntu and GNOME: silently succeed and avoid bugging the user whenever possible.

What kind of use the would be made of the thousands of feedback reports (most of which would be redundant, both among themselves and the feedback already present on Launchpad, the forums and elsewhere) would be another question.