Comment 47 for bug 62195

No worries, I was not trolling. I personally don't want to switch from ubuntu to anything else. It is true however that ubuntu sometimes does things that make sense for the home user, but not for large collections of workstations. This grub bug, or rather decision by ubuntu developers to overrule a user/administrator setting is an example of that. Ideally, I want to be able to set the default behaviour of update-grub in a /etc/defaults/update-grub file.

In my opinion, ubuntu is mainly aimed at either home computers (incl. laptops) and servers, but not large scale client installations. There are virtually no ubuntu-made tools for sysadmins to do tasks typical for such an environment. I need stuff like:
- configuring authentication for LDAP/Kerberos/Active Directory
- account administration (adding, removing, changing accounts, archiving data, quota settings, etc.)
- making a customized menu-system for all users, alacarte can only do it for single users
- imaging solution to install clients over network that is simple yet configurable
- per-user settings for thunderbird, alpine, firefox extensions, numerous other applications
- some kind of central store for images, like git or subversion, combined with a virtualization solution in order to build images and test before installing them on client machines.
- I would be willing to pay for a service by Ubuntu to build deb packages for unpackaged software like for instance `xv´. Every time I need to upgrade the client workstations, I also need to hunt for around 40 or so software packages, not present in the repositories. Ubuntu might be able to make some money to provide a packaging service for people like me.

Anyway, I was not trolling, actually I like to help Ubuntu.