Comment 548 for bug 269656

Sorry to kick this obsoleted discussion. Unfortunatly I have to admit that I too, have quit using Ubuntu. To be specific: Xubuntu. I am not the only one who quit using an Ubuntu distro. My wife who's a dedicated KDE user quit Kubuntu for the reason Canonical chose KDE4 in stead of offering the choice to use KDE3 or KDE4. Xubuntu (tried Jaunty on a customer's pc) has a great look and feel, the way installing it, using it is fantastic, but the feeling to agree with an EULA of Firefox, the knowledge my machine would become unstable after a distro upgrade made me decide me to go back to Debian, including my advices to others. I use a stable Lenny release with the advantages of the Squeeze release, thinking back on the time using Kubuntu / Xubuntu wich worked perfectly on the most recent machines (also in professional ways) but doing a distro upgrade had a 50% chance of succeeding while its origin Debian succeeds on 95% of the installs. When Canonical would change its policy in periods of distributing (*)Ubuntu letting the older installs being compatible with their first oncoming releases I (and a lot of my customers) would be some of the many to be returning to (*)Ubuntu. Canonical is doing a great job, but the product has to be workable over a longer time than it is today. I'd like to see the (*)Ubuntu distro's being upgraded as freely as other distro's do, slowly and stable changing to the next without loss of data and/or stability.