"ubiquity interface"  er uh, I meant to say "Unity interface"

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Sure we care, but Canonical is calling all the shots, and lately for
some inexplicable reason they have been heading in the wrong direction
at a rapid gallop.

On the subject of Paper Cuts:

trying to target an os to the unskilled users like my grandmother, is
all very fine and well as long as it's not being done at the expense of
the technical users.  But a lot of the things that they are doing are
really alienating the technical users, and they ought to be the true
target market.

glacial progress on bug fixes does not help to instill confidence
either...  the problems of PulseAudio for instance, are not Canonicals
fault, but the choice to continue to use something that is so throughly
broken is a policy choice of Canonical.

Maybe it is xorg that is to blame as well, but in ubuntu 9 on my old
laptop everything worked.  in Ubuntu 10 on my old laptop I couldn't get
the video to work so never installed it.  Then I got a new laptop.  in
ubuntu 10 on my new laptop everything works except the microphone.  but
now in ubuntu 11 on my new laptop the video once again does not work and
the microphone still does not work.   This is NOT progress.

Meanwhile the switch to the Unity Interface totally ignores the cost of
retraining the unskilled users in how to use the new system -- that is
even assuming the interface is any good, but by most accounts it is way
too raw to deploy.  Companies want stability, radical design changes
without a compelling reason are not a good thing.  That was in fact one
of the selling points in converting people away from microsoft because
they do make arbitrary changes strictly to have something new to sell
and people have gotten fed up with that, but now ubuntu is doing the
same.

I could go on...  but basically what I am saying is that many of the
trends are going in a negative direction and even if the problem is not
with Canonical per-se they are the final arbitrator of ubuntu.

it is a sad sad thing, but thank you for the response.

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