Comment 19 for bug 172879

as a regular ubuntu user with a slow and expensive dsl internet connection i thank you for working on this issue. note that it was me who had attempted to mark this as a papercut then it was deemed too complex to be a papercut and i didnt know how to un-mark it as a papercut so that this bug would be tracked as a regular usability/desktop experience problem. but i am glad that it is finally being worked on because it was a really poor experience right at the very beginning of ubuntu usage - the "OOBE" (out of the box experience) installation part :-)

@colin: once/whenever you have some fixes done, do update this bug so that i may test maybe a daily live iso image? otherwise i will only be installing the next alpha 5 release but would be glad to test and give feedback before then, should there be any updates...

also, i am hoping this is also picked up by kubuntu (which i use) and other variants and not just ubuntu...