Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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I like Debian, I like Gnome, so of course I don't have a problem with Ubuntu. But it is too hyped (remember Gentoo fanboys?) and it can't live to the highest expectations right now (without a certain amount of placebo effect).
Let's just say that a week with Ubuntu has renewed my respect to Debian developers (they are of the highest skill, and they are a bit conservative for a reason). But Ubuntu=Debian for the people who would otherwise run Mandrake, is a worthwhile goal as well.
If you belong to the group of people that likes patching their own kernel etc, maybe you don't belong to Ubuntu's target group though.