Comment 129 for bug 563878

"They need to branch out into a "hardcore linux guru" version and a "window convert" version if they want to keep pursuing these two completely different career paths."

Yes that is the point. In a month we wil have Unity instead of Gnome. I am comfortable with that but my users probably will not be. Ik think there's too much fiddling going on with every new version, constant changes don't appeal to users that want a simple to use OS. I can remember the disastrous transition to alpha-KDE4 in Mandriva, some years ago. That was the reason I completely lost faith in Mandriva (I used MDV from 2000, quite a long time) and I decided to convert all my systems to Ubuntu. Only now I find out that Ubuntu has many more bugs with every release than Mandriva ever had. I think the release cycle is too short, make it a year to test and think it out thoroughly.

I have converted quite some Windows users to Ubuntu, installed and configured everything for them, gave support, but I stopped with that when this bug happened. It was just one thing too many to explain (yes one guy told me "it looked ugly"). I just got tired of it. My current users are on LTS karmic or earlier and I think I will not upgrade their systems for a long time to come now, especially with the new Unity coming up, because I learned in the past that a switch to a new desktop can be totally off putting.