Comment 24 for bug 107738

> pptp required by default install is a fringe case (< 1%)
Wrong.Actually this point of view is more than just an error.
For example, here in Russia LOTS of Ethernet-based ISPs and they are using VPN mostly for authentication purposes.
Actually, in my city, ISP "Corbina Telecom" is some Ethernet-based ISP which holds slightly over 13% total user base, this is well over 100 000 peoples in total and uses PPTP (or L2TP at your option) VPN to grant users Internet access.Other Ethernet-based ISPs are doing same.So actually situation is MUCH WORSE.Actually, PPTP VPN is one of major internet access methods in Russia.All recent Windows version allow easy creation of PPTP connection with default OS install.So Windows users are NEVER encounter this problem.Not a case with Ubuntu though.

Furthermore, due to this sad fact lots of users are getting poor experience that "Linux is crap and never works fine out of the box".Since when you need to download package to be able to access the Internet this is not so funny.Do you remember "pkunzip.zip" joke? :)

P.S.: even small Linux-based routers are including pptp client configurable via web face.Amazing that fully-weighted desktop system still fails to do very basic thing.Priority of this bug is strongly underestimated, at least for Russia this one is "Critical" - without network Ubuntu has no chances to outperform Windows.