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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So the reviewer went off down that tired old path of DVD playback, but apart from that and various subjective remarks, I thought it was quite a reasonable summary of the state of Ubuntu. If the apologists would actually get off their high horses (calling the reviewer a troll pretty much marks you out as an apologist given the fairness of many of the observations) and actually channel that energy into fixing the various broken parts of the Debian/GNOME/Ubuntu experience, perhaps they wouldn't need to spend their time defending the cause in online forums.
Oh, and Canonical did kindly send me some CDs and I'd gladly contribute to the effort given a bit more time, but as a distro to do actual work on (as opposed to one to hack on) I don't see it replacing my aging Red Hat install no matter how much I'd like it to. And as for comparisons with Knoppix, I was shocked to see that 128MB RAM is really not enough (unless you want to spend 20 minutes waiting for it to boot into a very slow desktop) - so much for the chances of third-world uptake with those kinds of minimum requirements.