I think Ubuntu is becoming too much a distribution for the masses, losing much of its power in this transformation process. From Ubuntu 5.10 till now many progresses have been done, but also many option disappeared from our favourite operative system. Ubuntu is following too much the phylosophy of "the fewer option i give to the user, the less the user can mess up the computer". But that also means that the most of us, middle-experienced linux users will not find what firstly brought us from windows to linux, that pleasure of learning new things, of seeing our machine with a different eye, the eye of the user who can truly decide how his machine will work.
I think that, in the effort of making things easier, ubuntu is not anymore offering a long list of useful features that i was always courious to explore, that i was courious to learn what they would do, but also that, becaming every day a little more expert, i would eventually find very useful.
People who have power to decide how ubuntu, and the whole linux, gnome, kde, mozilla and similar, should pay attention to carefully balance the target of their works, otherwise they will certainly lose most of the people who chose Ubuntu as the right compromise between an easy to use system and the most powerful and complete, but also spartan and difficult to use system.
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Originally Posted by raul_
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