And talking about breakage: I can't count how many times some important Gnome3 plugin broke after a minor Gnome3 update from the distribution. Or how many times I wasn't able to install a plugin that installed fine just a month ago on the same Gnome3 version. Why? Because you have to download them from some obnoxious website that apparently has no archive and no way to properly match the right plugin version to a given Gnome3 version.
Cinnamon copied the same madness. But you have to install less addons to make it at least usable. KDE is somehow still stuck in the previous decade when it comes to desktop design.
If the Gnome3 project with their questionable design choices and holier-than-thou attitude is the future of desktop Linux, then I have to say that the situation is much worse than it was ten years ago.
BTW, Ubuntu doesn't come with Amazon addons installed anymore. And even when it did, you could entirely remove it and look at the source. I think Canonical realised that they cannot pull something like that anymore.
I use i3 instead of Gnome 3 and the Gnome 3 apps with CSD fit in beautifully. There used to be issues where there were gaps and such, but those are resolved by now.
> something that has been solved more elegantly by putting menus in the top panel
Arguable and probably comes down to personal preferences. For some apps (like the screenshot tool) it fits really well.
> their own custom [...] init system of Upstart when they could have contributed to System
upstart was developed several years, just under half a decade, before systemd even existed; it was used by Fedora for three years.
Eucalyptus vs OpenStack (ever heard of Eucalyptus?)
Bazaar vs Git (Git won)
LaunchPad vs Github (LaunchPad is alive and well, but Github won the popularity contest)
Wayland vs Mir (Wayland won)
upstart vs systemd (systemd won)
Let's see how these work out:
Juju vs Kubernetes/OpenShift (I'm aware that you can run Kubernetes on Juju, probably won't save them though)
Snap vs Flatpak (vs AppImage?)
It's sad, really. I like Ubuntu and Canonical and strongly believe in competition, but it'd really help if they didn't consistently back the wrong projects.
I can't help wonder if this will keep happening as their competition waits to see everything new Canonical chooses to back, then works to thwart it :)
Have you actually looked at Ubuntu, have you tried to use it? I'm not even going to go through your assertions one by one to debunk them, as most of them are wrong and unsupported by facts.
Cheers.