> On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert Nesius wrote: > >> I think Canonical gets a bit of a bad rap. They are pushing a >> debian-based distro with a six-month release cycle - which is exactly >> what a lot of people wanted. They also have done a lot of work on >> integration. I don't know the whole story, but there has been friction >> between the Gnome community and Canonical for awhile - as from reading >> the posts above it seems Gnome leadership has been somewhat dickish >> about some of the issues at play. >> >> I'm interested in objective criticisms of Ubuntu. Not so much in people >> bagging on it to look 1337. > > > When I see people calling it "noob"untu, I think they are trying to tell > me they are more experienced users who don't need an easy-to-use distro. > I've been using Unix and Linux systems for more than 20 years and I > greatly prefer something easy that requires almost nothing from me as a > user. If it's easy to install and just works, that's great. I would > prefer to have no sysadmin skills at all and have a system with good, > secure default settings that never fails. Having readily available, > up-to-date packages is important. For me Ubuntu is working fine. If > there is something better, I'd like to know, but I wouldn't want it if > it's going to take a lot of time to figure it out. > > Mike How can you learn anything if everything just works. Where's the fun in that. Canonical does it for the sake to be different. It doesn't work for us lets switch to something in house, hence unity. Making drastic changes hurts the user. People are going to have to relearn how to navigate through the OS. Adobe flash has done this too, vdpau doesn't work for us lets make our own api. I've never like the debian way of pkg management. openssl-devel makes a lot more sense the libssl-dev When I choose an OS I prefer to pick the ones that come with a forced lifestyle. I prefer to spend extra money to have comfort that my user experience will be above average and that my laptop doubles as a cake cutter. I can't make decision for myself so I let the OS / developers do it for me. I then like to hang out in coffee shops and show everyone my new toy.