Comment 2 for bug 982231

My brother just lost several hours' worth of work because of this "feature" of Ubuntu. Needless to say, the chances of him ever seriously considering using Ubuntu in the future are now precisely zero. As you can imagine, he was fairly vocal about what he thought of Ubuntu, and quite frankly, I couldn't think of anything to say in Ubuntu's defense.

Why would "Linux For Human Beings" assume that anyone knew about this behaviour? As it stands, this is nothing more than Ubuntu deleting your files without asking and without warning.