And when Canonical went mainstream, it became the focus of irrational hatred too. Never hated them. I do however think they made themselves a huge disfavour by

And when Canonical went mainstream, it became the focus of irrational hatred too. Never hated them. I do however think they made themselves a huge disfavour by abandoning a proven recipe that people loved. I mean even I used Ubuntu because of its almost perfect Gnome, and I was traditionally a KDE person. Summarized: they built a userbase of people who loved their flavour of Gnome, then suddenly swapped that for something completely unproven that might be better but was very different - and expected us to continue to be fans just because they were Canonical. Suddenly it turned out we weren't so much Canonical fans as fans of a polished free desktop that worked well.