I have a lot of respect for how far Ubuntu has come, but I recently made the switch to Mint. The last several releases have become more and more about bringing

I have a lot of respect for how far Ubuntu has come, but I recently made the switch to Mint. The last several releases have become more and more about bringing Canonical's service offerings to the forefront when all I want is a terminal and a browser to do my dev work. Mint gave me a nice default desktop setup, access to the Ubuntu repositories and a world free of any brand's come-ons.