Comment 26 for bug 930148

"I've always supported or found my way around the orientation taken in Ubuntu, but removing this would be the dead end for me, the one blocking obstacle making me switch, because of it's very negative impact on my workflow, even if it may seem insignificant. So please do something about this decision."

I don't mean to threaten Ubuntu as I'm sure Bertrandel doesn't mean either, but I'd like to add a consideration. Maybe this won't stop me from using Ubuntu (although now that it'll behave exactly the same as OS X in this regard, I might actually boot into OS X more often and gradually leave Ubuntu), but the most worrying thing for me is that it shows a line of thought that definitely would make me leave. As Bertrandel said: you might gain new users by dumbing down the OS, but it will be at the cost of losing more seasoned users. Don't forget that users are new for just a few months. Probably when the next release arrives, the new user isn't new anymore. If you keep changing Ubuntu's behavior at every release, you'll lose users at a rate that might be even higher than the adoption rate.

That's not clever.