[pcx66]

I love Ubuntu. Been a fan from, lets see, 5.04. It's been a long sweet experience. But lately I've got many areas which I vehemently disagree with them.

I guess the most important issue with Ubuntu nowadays is the one of privacy. With the recent revelations of mass surveillance, exposing desktop searches to a 3rd party by default is a catastrophic decision. I can't understand how the folks at Canonical could accept such a feature. They could have made it opt-in, with flashing popups and shit, asking you to signup. But making it default is a nightmarish situation. I was able to recommend non-technical users (like my parents and relatives) to install Ubuntu by themselves, arguing there was nothing to change that would need someone with know-how. But not now with stuff like this. I don't think the major chunk of the user-base (home users), would understand the implications of this feature.