AT&T's motives have to be covertly hostile.

This is pretty strange. Last week I started doing quite a bit of work on my Ubunuty/Unity desktop. I got pretty miffed when I couldn't create simple desktop launchers. So I checked out some other desktops and decided to use Cinnamon. Unfortunately Ubuntu's Cinnamon is a bit buggy particularly when it goes to sleep and you wake it up again. As such I installed Fedora 25 Cinnamon and It's been great so far. The NEXT DAY I read an article that Ubuntu is discontinuing Unity. Then the DAY AFTER THAT I hear that Ubuntu has been sending my input information to Amazon and possibly others. I wasn't aware of this. I don't recall ever being given the option to OPT-OUT. Whatever the reason, I think Canonical is being just a little dishonest with it's users and the effects are starting to show.