Canonical Ubuntu Criticism

Ubuntu has been a Canonical project that is based on Linux for so many years. It is hardly community driven OS that people believe. I think it is a good thing. They are moving forward in some direction. They will make mistakes. Hopefully they will learn out of it. There is nothing wrong in it. In general Linux userspace is very fragmented. Organizations and developers seldom agree on anything. Ubuntu can't provide a true desktop user experience in such a space. And there are always distributions

This doesn't apply to Ubuntu,right? As in Canonical isn't doing something like this, right??

Would you ditch Linux, because Canonical has been making concerning decisions with Ubuntu ?

Unity is primarily available on Ubuntu. Now Canonical has said goodbye to all derivatives to welcome Mir. You are obviously going to make an argument that it's available for free do what you want to do with it - we don't support it, we don't break your work. This is a little dishonest. You have to do what you have to do, I am not judging.

This was Ubuntu's idea and it's telling that even Canonical has abandoned it.

Doesn't work. If it did work, Ubuntu wouldn't be reaching like this for revenue opportunities.

Canonical isn't about making changes, they're about driving adoption. Launchpad Bug #1 is "Microsoft has majority marketshare." Canonical might not write a ton of software themselves, but they get tons of feedback from their sizable and engaged userbase, and they work hard with upstream devs to get usability problems addressed. They've also been active in pushing new developments (like Wayland replacing X) into the mainstream really, really fast. Ubuntu 10.10 boots to a usable desktop in unde

Ubuntu is nothing but a Linux distribution. The job of a distribution is to provide packages, not dictate to you which packages you must use.I use Ubuntu because it seems to still be the desktop distro most widely supported by third-party apps and drivers, and I have had good success with release upgrades. Otherwise, if I had any problem with Ubuntu's package repos, there's no reason not to use Debian or Fedora instead. Among desktop distros, Debian stable is great if you think Ubuntu LTS doe

Ubuntu dropped the ergonomic Gnome to whip us with their own custom, unpolished Unity.Now they're doing it all over again with Mir, while Wayland could be a Linux standard. Sounds like IE all over again.That gives me trust issues with Canonical. More, they now leverage trademark law to forbid people from using ubuntu-? packages.Then they pulled the Amazon search in the menu, it showed Canonical's misunderstanding of privacy issues.Doesn't prevent from using Ubuntu, but

I smell mistrust. How can they trust Canonical to not "innovate" again?