Thumbs up for Xubuntu and other flavours
I have used Unix, Xenix, Mandrake, Scientific Linux, SUSE and a few others and, until Ubuntu got going, Linux was for coders and code hackers. Ubuntu, initially looked down on as "Linux for beginners", was the first flavour that I could actually put on my children's computers without them shrieking in horror. Early nightmares with wireless wrappers are gone. Ubuntu gets more solid by the month even though the wrinkles are still there somewhat. The whole point IS that you don't need a PhD in particle physics to use it!
Purists can just go to SL6 or Debian. No probs. Nothing wrong with that.
But I cannot understand why people get so annoyed. If you don't like Unity, switch to something else (that's still Ubuntu). Isn't that the whole point? (I use Xubuntu -- it's wonderful.)
Thank you Canonical (and thank you Google for backing Android). Everyday more Windoze users are becoming more aware that there IS a choice. There is a decent OS out there and it doesn't hurt to use it (except, I suppose, if you try and install it on a W8 machine).
