Comment 70 for bug 974480

After using using 13.04 everyday for good couple months now, I just want to come and let the team know just how aggravating this decision still is every day. I don't care about Ubuntu's politics or disagreements with Linux app developers who don't care to adopt the 'Unity way'. I care that my day-to-day user experience is, and continues to be made needlessly frustrating.

Applications I use every day, like Google Chrome and JungleDisk, are still not working and still a pain to have to go kill them from the task list just because am forbidden by Mark's ideology from seeing the tray icon. Anti-user decisions driven by ideology is why my next laptop will definitely not be Linux; I know Mint is there and most people seem to be switching to that now; but it still the Ubuntu-based and I think these things are going to keep happening :-(

At least Microsoft brings back the start menu that is what users want. Pity the Ubuntu team values their users so much less.

I have been a proud Linux/Ubuntu user for eight years now, but this is the last straw for me.