I still think that there is a market for a user friendly linux desktop AS WELL AS a market for a user friendly OS on portable/consumer devices, I don't blame Canonical for trying to make a profit to stay in business and trying to position for what it thinks will be the "next big thing". In a lot of ways Ubuntu desktop is very easy to use, in a lot of ways they were sort of screwed over when the Gnome team decided to change their whole paradigm of what a "desktop" should be. Rather than design another "as is" window manager Ubuntu team apparently decided to take their own stab at a "friendly" UI. Personally I believe that the UI for phones and tablets should look very different from the UI for desktop PC's. I can understand apple and other vendors wanting to have a one size (and one codebase) fits all solution but the use for phones, tablets, TV and desktop really are for different purposes. There are plenty of other Linux distros out there that are extremely customizable, I still do point a few of my friends who are looking for a basic system that "works" and doesn't have to be customizable to Ubuntu 12.04 - as long as I think their hardware can support it. I have been using Linux since I downloaded boot and root floppies off of a BBS in 1994. Ok well, really using it since slackware was new. I gave up in the late 90's and early 2000's because every distro release seemed to break new and different fundamental driver functionality. Then I finally found Ubuntu - and way back on version 5 I was just amazed at this distro that not only worked on EVERY machine I threw at it (Including a Pentium II 450Mhz) but also was extremely intuitive to understand back before 3D compositing started to take ahold of everything. I really was pulling machines out of recycling or trash piles and giving them new life with Ubuntu. Both Canonical and the Ubuntu team have worked very hard and I wish them a lot of success, but the REASON I evangelized Ubuntu to start with was because it really WAS the "dream linux" that everyone was hoping for. Easy to use, wide compatibility. Everyone keeps saying that the PC is dead. More likely that vendors just can't make a profit off of it any more and they are looking for next big thing. Mark is right, its just hard for me to wrap my head around Unity on the desktop. I love Unity on my 7" netbook, but not so much on the desktop. Actually I really liked netbook remix on the 7" netbook - I guess Unity is combination of both desktop + netbook remix.. Anyway, thanks for listening. John On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Tal Liron