People will use Ubuntu as long as it is good, and Canonical will make money supporting it as long as people use it.

Personally, I prefer Kubuntu... But that doesn't really make much difference, does it?

I've used other distros in the past, but they all came up short in ways I couldn't deal with. Slackware always seemed to be needing something hand-compiled... Debian always seemed to be years in the past, which generally meant I had to hand-compile things there, too. RedHat and I just never got along.

Then along comes Kubuntu and improves Debian in the one way that mattered to me: It was current.

I like that Ubuntu stays edgy and always uses new things as soon as they are ready for use. (I will admit, sometimes they do it a bit -before- they are ready.) Seeing them move away from X, I actually considered trying it instead of KDE for the next release. We'll see how it goes when it's here.

And it's not like this affects Ubuntu servers at all, either. They don't even use X.