If Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, it is also the most hated. Last year, a survey on the Linux Hater’s blog listed Ubuntu as “the most hated community distro.” More here

What is happening here? How can Ubuntu be both so successful and so determinedly attacked? The attacks, like so much that is negative in the free software community, are likely from a minority whose obsessiveness gives them the illusion of numbers. Yet, if so, it still seems a larger minority than usual.