They haven't driven me away but they have nullified the advantage they had of being the Linux install I could count on to put on a new desktop/laptop machine an

They haven't driven me away but they have nullified the advantage they had of being the Linux install I could count on to put on a new desktop/laptop machine and have it basically Just Work. Now I have to undo the damage of the silly UI after the install. I still tend to pick Ubuntu out of habit, but one more iffy release and that will probably change.