Ban / Boycott Ubuntu

At the installfest yesterday, Ubuntu LoCo people pushed Ubuntu on a user who ended up asking us for Mint. We gave him a DVD and a USB.
He was interested in privacy and when we told him that Ubuntu sent data to Amazon… he was really surprised.

This says it all.

Ubuntu is l4m3 as a distro any hay.

http://www.faqlinux.com/?p=230

Ban Ubuntu. They went after Fix Ubuntu… wonder why?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/ubuntus-trademark-folly-fueled-by-misunderstanding-of-law-eff-says/

Here’s the truth.

• The company is failing. The product is second class.
• The company hires people in various states and is worldwide but only has 500 employees. Many of those, working remotely, are tech support.
• As far as I know, no donations from Ubuntu have ever been received by Debian. Ubuntu is not part of the DCC.
  They are partnering with M$.
• These Ubuntu Groups are popping up and taking over LUG events because as the person who wrote the Linux User Group How To stated, Ubuntu LoCo people couldn’t “organise a trip to the bathroom”. He may have stated restroom. Either way.

Ubuntu is not a real threat and will fade into obscurity soon enough. Just don’t use their Spyware Lame product.
Try Mint
LMDE
http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Also, Ubuntu doesn’t use swap correctly.

Please listen to The New Ubuntu theme song 😛

Freedom is so important.
Please don’t use Ubuntu!

More on Ubuntu Misbehavior.

As of late, I have been in open discussion regarding the misbehavior by Ubuntu.
There is a long list.

More recently, I noticed a seemingly strong arm effect happening at the Linux User Group where Ubuntu Loco is taking over. This is a great concern to me and I will tell you why in the next few words.

Community, Responsibility, Freedom.

How can I teach my children about freedom over convenience when the groupthink at the LUG is … it’s ok, at least we are using Linux!
How can we stand by and see a beautiful free distribution bastardized like this?
No donations were ever given to Debian to my knowledge.
I want to let Canonical know that some of us are ethically driven.
I believe in free agency. Let the attendee make an informed decision!

How is it acceptable that Ubuntu is spying, trying to maintain their lame trademark rights, and are basically bullying others. Literally, today at the installfest, I really was bullied when I suggested Mint.
Also, at the last installfest, the Canonical employee’s chip on his shoulder interfered with my ability to complete tasks. Fortunately, the attendee and I had already met at a previous event and built a decent repertoire.
Even then, she was like, “Wow. He was rude!” Fantastic representation, Canonical!

This is my opinion based on fact.

1. These Ubuntu groups are popping up all over the place. The members must do multiple tasks including one important ritual – Drinking the Canonical Kool Aid.

2. The Ubuntu groups are supposed to work with other distros but really have a way of pushing out others and forcing Ubuntu during installfests.

3. The Ubuntu groups are a smoke and mirrors tactic to make people believe these people are larger in number and more important than they are. By strategically hiring less than 10 people per state as low level tech support (but making these people believe they are important), Canonical gives an illusion of being a strong and large corporation.

4. Ubuntu is in bed with Microsoft.
The Nokia Here phone GPS will give data to Canonical unless a user is aware of and opts out of the data and advertisement scheme.

As a free software advocate, I am absolutely disgusted with Canonical. The actions are far from community minded. Their actions are tantamount to manipulation, maneuvering and the evil empire.

I would like to advocate the boycott and banning of Ubuntu and Ubuntu products including the phone.

If you value your freedom. If you value privacy, If you have any values at all, avoid Ubuntu at all costs. There are still proprietary companies that are going to be involved with Ubuntu, sure.

I might be fine with Ubuntu had I not noticed a few key things…

1. At installfests, Ubuntu Loco tried to take over what was initially a Phoenix LUG event. I know because I started the Installfest. However, it was kept going in my absence. However, it was NEVER an Ubuntu event.

In my absence, I suppose they were used to installing Ubuntu only. Several people have been installing other distros (thank you Mike and Sergio).

In the past 3 installfests, I have attended, Ubuntu has been shoved down the throats of attendees. I even had one lady who wanted MINT. She WANTED Mint.

Why you ask? There was a video error on her monitor with Ubuntu. Funny… she did not have the error with Mint…

2. Then, a woman wanted her printer working. A Canonical “employee” and I use the term loosely because of the smoke and mirrors was “helping”. Of course, I use the term “helping” loosely also.

Now, here’s the thing – the Canonical guy – Mark Thomas, decided because she no longer had internal wireless card working, he would install 14.04… over 14.04.
He didn’t bother to say… find out what module was needed.
He didn’t bother to say… install the module for the nic…

No… he reinstalled 14.04. This is a guy who works at Canonical for a living. This begs the question, “Why is a Canonical employee at an installfest”. To possibly push SpyBuntu? The reinstall threw errors. Mark Thomas LEFT! Then, the woman said she would NEVER return!

How horrible is that for our community?!

Canonical and their flagship product is sinking fast. They are using our community minded people to push their fallen product.

There are so many flaws with Ubuntu.
Let’s think about the virtual memory issue.
They don’t know how to use swap.

Ever have the system freeze up on you?
Well, guess what!

3. Ubuntu “reps” will not argue. They just blindly follow and believe that Ubuntu is correct all the time, even when it is obvious to everyone else how corrupt and broken Ubuntu is.

4. These Ubuntu people are not exactly the most socially acceptable people in the world. Many of them are rude.
5. AZ Ubuntu Loco group members have great excuses as to why Ubuntu was put on attendees machines.
Low space, low memory, low processing.
Netboot? Low band.

I had a Debian Live USB with me and ISOs for Debian, Mint, Arch on my laptop. It wouldn’t take long to write it and install it.
My idea is to create a demo box. Different distros could be selected to demonstrate to users. Users could select he distro they wanted.

There was a lot of resistance to this by the AZ Ubuntu Loco lead. Guess what? That tells me this is exactly what I need to do!

The fact is that one guy, who even wanted to be an “Official Ubuntu member”, just found out today about the cookies and data being sent to Amazon by Ubuntu. If you can imagine the shock of hearing such news – after installing Ubuntu for years at installfests. Poor guy!

The truth comes out, SPYBUNTU! As Alex states – Until you change your spying ways… for now you get 1 star, only because we cannot give you a 0.
If there was an option for 0 stars, Ubuntu would get that rating!