On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com>wrote:

> I think he is confused by the Donation Splash page that comes up.
>
>
Good Lord, that's actually a thing. Go through from the front page,
following the various "Download Ubuntu/Get Ubuntu" links, and eventually
you get a page with a set of sliders to choose how you divvy up your
donation, a very prominent "Pay with Paypal" button at the lower-right, and
a significantly less prominent, "No, just download Ubuntu" link off to the
bottom left. If you're scanning quickly for the actual download link or
just clicking through waiting for a download to start, it's not hard to
miss the "free download" button.

That's at about the same level of "service" as some of the skeevier random
file-sharing websites I've occasionally tripped over. Nicely done,
Canonical.

The last large number of years I've just gone straight to
releases.ubuntu.com when I needed a new shiny ISO. Hadn't realized the
front-end was so distasteful. Not impressed. It's a good thing Ubuntu
itself is so awesome, a lot of the rest of what Canonical gets up to leaves
a bad taste in my mouth.

Brian.
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