The thing is that you are sacrificing your freedom to it. You're being slowly locked into another incompatible platform. One of the great freedoms of open sour

The thing is that you are sacrificing your freedom to it. You're being slowly locked into another incompatible platform. One of the great freedoms of open source software is to go "fuck you disty, I'm off to another one". When all your stuff is coded against Mir, Upstart and Unity, you no longer have that luxury. Also, beauty is only skin deep.