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Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-can't-we-all-get-along dept.

inkscapee writes "Used to be Ubuntu was the big Linux hero, the shining knight that would drive Linux onto every desktop and kick bad old Windows to the curb. But now Ubuntu is the Bad Linux. What's going on, is it typical fanboy fickleness, or is Canonical more into serving their own interests than creating a great Linux distro?"

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  1. Re:Ubuntu got popular. by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    The unwashed masses run Windows.
    The elite run OSX.
    The elite of the elite run Ubuntu.
    The elite of the elite of the elite run Debian. ... ... ...
    I run AmigaOS. Yeah, you feel my cool don't you?

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    - For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat /dev/random (may take some time)
  2. Re:What's going on? by kenh · · Score: 1, Funny

    Exactly!

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    Ken
  3. Re:what? by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, a real tragedy that you have to go switch the side the buttons are in the settings.

  4. Re:Who's this guy ? by numbski · · Score: 5, Funny

    Burma Shave

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    Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).

  5. Re:What's going on? by vlm · · Score: 4, Funny

    So... we're all going to use Windows now?

    Actually use iPads while endlessly promoting Android ipad-killer tablets.

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    "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  6. Re:What's going on? by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What's going on, is it typical fanboy fickleness, or is Canonical more into serving their own interests than creating a great Linux distro?"

    Yes

    Kosh, is that you? Fancy meeting you here! Last I heard you'd left the galaxy!

  7. Re:What's going on? by zill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Summaries are assumed to be true, not opinion.

    Don't assume. It makes an ass out of you and me.

  8. Re:What's going on? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, I miss the days of journalists, like William Randolph Hearst, who didn't have any agenda.