This is the final nail in Ubuntu's coffin for me. I've been using Ubuntu
since Karmic. I think since Unity came in things have got worse. This is
a great shame. It seems with this 'solution' that no online lens
searches will be possible. How does this fit with Linux being about
choice? Why not have this lens as a PPA (or Synaptic package) so that if
users want the ads and so forth they 'opt in' and pull it down. Some
internet searches are useful but I'll aver the vast majority of Ubuntu's
core users do not want 'sell-out' ads appearing on their desktop. Whilst
I'm sure it's true that users could download the source and remove this
feature if they wished, this is not something that the vast majority of
hobbyists or newbie's will be able to do easily. It seems to me that
Cananical and Ubuntu are fast becoming Linux's equivalent of Microsoft
and Windows: starting to restrict choice and foist what it thinks is
best upon the community. It's sad but I have now switched distros. I'm
now running Linux Mint Debian 64-bit. If you look at Distro Watch Mint
has had the higher page hit ranking for quite some time. Linux Mint
allows me to keep my productivity up while Ubuntu seems to hinder me now
more than when I first started using Karmic and was getting to know this
OS. A newbie coming to Ubuntu now has to figure out how to use the Unity
metaphor and HUD further complicates things in my opinion. Lenses are
not pretty or functional for me - they simply get in the way. I
sincerely hope Ubuntu changes the way it does things and if they fail to
do so then I hope the community votes with their feet and abandon it and
get another distro on their machines. Ubuntu has dropped the ball and
lost its way. It is interesting that in the latest edition of Ubuntu
User their was some feedback on Unity - there wasn't much positive about
it. Come on Ubuntu, please start listening to the community. To say this
isn't going to be fixed is nothing short of disgraceful and I hope this
is a dealbreaker for the community. Ubuntu: you ARE going to lose user
base over this 'feature' - it is ill-thought out and disrespectful to
your users and community to say it won't be fixed. How much more Apple
/MS-like can you get - you are treating your users with contempt. I will
*not* be installing Ubuntu ever again - even in VBox.

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