Ubuntu sliding in popularity

Ubuntu sliding in popularity - Has it had one PR disaster too many? | TechEye

Figures from Distro-watch show that the popular front of Linux, Ubuntu, is sliding in popularity.

While the distro is still tops, it is starting to look like others are eating into its user base faster than Homer Simpson at an all you can eat penguin steak buffet.

It is jolly easy to pin most of Ubuntu's woes on one thing - Unity. Unity was Mark Shuttleworth's attempt to make a more user friendly GUI for Ubuntu which has always looked a little too much like a Windows XP clone.

Unfortunately, he miffed a lot of people who want Ubuntu because it looked like a Windows XP clone and they didn't want to learn a new skill set. The other problem with Unity was that it took out all the things that allowed Linux fanboys to tinker.