I know this because no other distro takes up five+ news areas on Distrowatch!

Yeah, we're obviously using the wrong distribution, therefore we're probably not human beings. But what really annoys me is that M$ Windoz€ must be the greatest operating system ever, as almost every computer store wants to sell it!

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Moved: This thread is more suitable in <Ubuntu> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

No, I think Android has the spotlight right now...
"Gartner estimates that Android will reach 1.1 billion users in 2014, a 26 percent increase from 2013."
"In fall 2011 Canonical estimated that Ubuntu had more than 20 million users worldwide."
Pretty sure Ubuntu's numbers dropped because of adware/spyware and whatnot.

Also, just because it takes up a little space on Distrowatch doesn't mean that they're the best thing since sliced bread. There are better distros out there, a prime example is Manjaro.

Don't know where you moved this from but it was a good idea.

Even with the move it has not attracted attention from fanboys other than the OP.

Give it time. It has only been eight hours.

1) Attention does not equal quality and lack of attention does not equal lack of quality.
2) The BBC often has articles about Microsoft, but I have never seen one about Ubuntu. So according to your logic, Windows must be the best OS ever.

That is right. I have never seen one either. Never thought about it. Even from a great company based in GB too.

Probably embarrassed by Canonical.

I know this is tongue in cheek humor when the OP has a Slackware icon and Distribution: Slackware in his posting profile.

Personally. OS are like tools. One is as good as the other depending on the job needed done by the user with the hardware he/she has.

Not a fanboy. Just pragmatic. Run what you brung, I say.

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Posts like this are called "trolls". I assume no one ever saw them before, that is why tehy are so eager to asnwer.

jlinkels

+1, it is all about what works for you as an individual.

Knightron wouldn't troll, he is just bring attention to the obvious.

To be fair, Knightron started this thread in General, not in the Ubuntu forum. It was moved here later, and that's why I wouldn't call it trolling. When purely quantitative criteria are so often replacing quality and reliability in its broadest sense, well, some humour IMHO is perfectly acceptable.

I have seen a few articles about Ubuntu on the BBC website. Mind you they were mostly in the context of mobile phones.

There was sarcasm in my remark, in case anyone missed that. I guess it was my personal way of expressing cynicism due to Ubuntu consuming up so much space on Distrowatch's homepage every time a new release roles round, simply because of desktop environments.

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That is right, I missed the sarcasm. And I also failed to notice that Knightron is a long-time member.

But anyone in defense of this post must admit that a title like this is a troll-bait.

jlinkels

When dealing with Ubuntu and Canonical Ltd., even indirectly as during a short visit to Distrowatch, one will bump into issues which I believe are quite serious and difficult to skip, at least for one who cares about certain things. I've used Ubuntu in the past (when Debian was my main distribution) so I feel that I have the right to express some thoughts here.

When a free Linux distribution can hire a former Simens Mobile, LG Mobile and Sony Ericsson top-notch marketing manager, John Bernard, now global marketing head at Mozilla, that's curious enough even if the founder of that distribution is a multi-millionaire. But well, why not.

When the same distribution includes in its staff since 2004 (the year of its foundation) a former vice president of General Dynamics C4 Systems, Jane Silber, then I start asking myself a few more questions. You can search the web to see what General Dynamics C4 Systems is. Silber became CEO at Canonical in 2010, replacing Shuttleworth, and is also on the board of a web scraping project (ScraperWiki).

When we add to that the nice spying features which were deliberately turned on by default on Ubuntu, one will understand why, sometimes, some legitimate humour and sarcasm get triggered, and why few people still believe to the "Linux for human beings" story.

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