[Karunamon]

>Also, no gun to your head. run whatever you like man. I'm only engaging you because you're kind of being a jackass.

I'm being a jackass because frankly I am tired of Canonical's shit. I can sort of forgive unity, okay, fine, ignoring what your users want in a UI seems to be the in thing nowadays (c.f. Microsoft, Gnome).

The Amazon lens was a bridge too far. I don't care if it's opt out - any form of advertising in a core OS component should be optin, not the other way around!

What put the final nail in the coffin for me was Shuttleworth's flippant response to those concerns.

And now with this whole "developed in secret" thing, the coffin reaches 5 feet under. As far as I can tell, Ubuntu's only real asset now is popularity. (And even that's declining, if the Distrowatch numbers mean anything...)

  Rank	Distribution	H.P.D*
  1	Mint	        3403
  2	Mageia	        2462
  3	Ubuntu	        2042
  4	Fedora	        1522
  5	openSUSE	1311

If they keep going out of their way to make their users feel like they don't matter, that final advantage will also disappear.