Comment 35 for bug 1066464

We are a small company but have a lot of pc's and laptops that we dont want to or cant upgrade to 8.1 and with expiry of XP support are urgently searching for an alternative. These are for professional users, not gamers, so super-graphics are not essential but a stable clean desktop is. The best option seemed to be a Linux based solution and Ubuntu appears to be the best of those available but have had no end of difficulties as many of the laptops have SiS graphics with no option to change them for a supported chip. Moergaes suggested a solution using Lubuntu with the patch which works but leaves us with a mountain to climb in terms of reinstating all the functionality of the full version of Ubuntu and a much shorter support window; this is a very frustrating situation given the commercial pressure to change systems and the fact the patch seems to have been available for a long while but is inexplicably excluded from the main distribution in spite of many threads requesting it.

It strikes me that there is a really strong driver to switch away from Windows to Linux solutions at the moment in the business community that could give Ubunto a massive boost; supporting older machinery for office duties is absolutely critical to widespread adoption. Its worth pointing out the other big distro's also suffer this problem so there's a further opportunity to differentiate Ubuntu ahead of the pack.