timkuijsten · December 10, 2015 04:18 · timkuijsten · Mar 29, 2013
diff --git a/Bye Bye Ubuntu (Desktop) b/Bye Bye Ubuntu (Desktop)
 Yesterday, after evangelizing Ubuntu for years and running Ubuntu on my
 parents desktop since 2009, I finally "relieved" them by giving them
 Windows 7 as a gift.

 For years I had the hope that every Ubuntu release would get better
 than the previous edition. That the vision of Canonical aligned with my
 vision of openness and where user rights are put central. I took the
 fact that some proprietary things didn't work for granted and thought
 we could fight it best by adding weight to the open source movement and
 use open source software while demanding open codecs, standards etc.

 I praised Unity, and really think this is a bold and strong move in the
 right direction that has to be taken in order to realize the ambitious
 goals Ubuntu has set for the open desktop [1].

 Harder it was to cope with software that used to work, but broke in a
 new release. E.g. it's really frustrating if your webcam always worked
 with Skype but suddenly after an upgrade it doesn't (and release after
 release, a year later, it still isn't fixed [2]), or if you can't do
 simple things like red eye removal, because the new version of the
 software you are using is broken [3]. My parents often encountered
 these seemingly little problems that completely put a halt on the
 things they wanted and were used to do. Regressions are much more
 irritating than bugs in new sofware.

 Since the news of sending search terms to Amazon by default I'm through
 with it. No longer do I feel Canonical puts my rights and liberties as a
 user central. No longer can I pull energy from the hope that the next
 release will be better. We don't move in the same direction anymore.

 Ubuntu, I hope someday we meet again.


 [1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/mark-shuttleworth-delivers-uds-keynote-address-sets-goal-for-200-million-ubuntu-users-in-4-years
 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/884210
 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/652158
	Yesterday, after evangelizing Ubuntu for years and running Ubuntu on my
	parents desktop since 2009, I finally "relieved" them by giving them
	Windows 7 as a gift.

	For years I had the hope that every Ubuntu release would get better
	than the previous edition. That the vision of Canonical aligned with my
	vision of openness and where user rights are put central. I took the
	fact that some proprietary things didn't work for granted and thought
	we could fight it best by adding weight to the open source movement and
	use open source software while demanding open codecs, standards etc.

	I praised Unity, and really think this is a bold and strong move in the
	right direction that has to be taken in order to realize the ambitious
	goals Ubuntu has set for the open desktop [1].

	Harder it was to cope with software that used to work, but broke in a
	new release. E.g. it's really frustrating if your webcam always worked
	with Skype but suddenly after an upgrade it doesn't (and release after
	release, a year later, it still isn't fixed [2]), or if you can't do
	simple things like red eye removal, because the new version of the
	software you are using is broken [3]. My parents often encountered
	these seemingly little problems that completely put a halt on the
	things they wanted and were used to do. Regressions are much more
	irritating than bugs in new sofware.

	Since the news of sending search terms to Amazon by default I'm through
	with it. No longer do I feel Canonical puts my rights and liberties as a
	user central. No longer can I pull energy from the hope that the next
	release will be better. We don't move in the same direction anymore.

	Ubuntu, I hope someday we meet again.


	[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/mark-shuttleworth-delivers-uds-keynote-address-sets-goal-for-200-million-ubuntu-users-in-4-years
	[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/884210
	[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/652158