Comment 11 for bug 202267

I would vote for "Third Party Drivers". It doesn't sound that negative like the initial description as "restricted" but on the other hand it informs the user about what he installs and why this software is not shipped with the installation CD, which also is quite important.

Anyway anyone of the suggestions made above would be better than the absolutely misleading "Hardware Drivers". I dislike "Additional Drivers" just because the word "additional" makes me thing about something that is not absolutely necessary but would have in any case a positive impact. Though this positive impact is not always guaranteed, like for example in case of fglrx.

From my experience in support forums I can say that the example of Bauermeister above is very characteristic. There are really people having Intel Graphic Cards which come and ask desperately why they don't find drivers for their cards in "Hardware Drivers". Is Intel bad not having drivers for linux? It sounds like a joke but it really happens. And the description "Hardware Drivers" doesn't help avoid that. Actually this is the point of view of the new user switching from windows to Ubuntu. This user has the mentality that every piece of hardware needs some kind of extra driver to work properly. Seeing his "Hardware Drivers" list empty he feels something like naked. He can't imagine that the normal case is to make the installation and everything should works.