Basically, you cited all the problems that MS Windows suffers on the desktop, due being the popular choice.

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

You're right!

Most popular desktop Linux distro.

I always wonder the same. But probably the answer is Canonical wants its own Linux phone than powerful integration with Android. Should be, in current days, a killer flag: "hey, my Linux distro runs Android apps, and integrates smoothly with Android phones".

I'm really disappointed to enter the comments and see we're missing any xkcd mention. By the way, what does xkcd mean? :D

... not stupid enough, Microsoft additionally wants to keep the patents secret. So, if your company reach a success level that can bother them, even if you try avoid most of the IT patents (which is impossible, because they're TOO generic), "SURPRISE, this is the list of patents you infringing and had no idea because we keep them in secret!"

... because evolve face to support strokes during falls and other nature related hurts are too mainstream.

Other way to compare is the G+ community members: more than 140k for Ubuntu, 9.6k for Mint.

underlying stability and functionality of the OS

Which came from Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.

men.

Yeap, because closed source software and hardware cannot be "upgraded" by NSA, right? I agree with you that cannot be a "Rasperberry PI", but it should be a open source solution, open to be auditable by any interested experts.

Because this is Slashdot, and people always need something to complain. Wayland will be clean, fast, and, more important, maintenainble. But, OMG, if it don't offer remote desktop in its bones, it'll be crap.

Now I'll never be able to sing again the Bruce Springsteen song without remember this news title!

As I'm an arcade gamer, and growth in the 8 and 16 bits era, for me, games are not an alternative reality. Games for fun only. And most remarkable games are the ones with generic stories: let's fight against Mr. X, that bad group has kidnapped my girlfriend, bad aliens will destroy our Universe. I even remember when I rent the TMNT games, on Genesis, for the first time, and my brothers asked me to skip the intro, because they want just play. But yeap, time changed, and now EVERY GAMES IN THE UNIVERSE have to present an epic story. Have to be long and easy. For God sake, at least the indie market is offering better alternatives then "THE INDUSTRY".