Except I never had the pleasure of installing Ubuntu on any computer without lots of problems, either hardware-related or shitty-beta-quality related ... my current Ubuntu installation (10.10) displays my head up-side-down in Skype-video, and there's no way to fix it other than to recompile the kernel with this special-fix mentioned on some obscure forum (no kidding, I'm still perplex about what it's taking so long for them to fix it).

Also, Unity? Are you freaking kidding me?

I'm all for being bold and innovative in UI/UX, but pushing alpha-quality software in a stable release to unsuspecting users?

What the hell were they thinking? It isn't acceptable that the UI in Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups; yes, I still have the license) was more consistent / reliable than Ubuntu 11.04 -- the average user doesn't have the patience to understand UI absurdities, neither the skills / patience to go edit files in /etc or recompile their kernels, just to make their system behave normally. Even I, after several years of struggling on every update, I'm quickly losing my interest in doing that.

So I'm sorry, but 200 millions of users won't be dumb enough to switch -- at this point I consider projects like Android/Meego as the only choice for desktop-Linux (simply because tables/mobiles will merge with desktops in the future).