A former student of mine noticed that my laptop looked different. Well, maybe not the laptop itself, but the user interface. She immediately inquired how I “did that” while she pointed at the screen of my Thinkpad. More here

I started to think about my totally inadequate answer to her question, “Because it’s better.” Had she given me an answer like that in class, I would have asked, “How is it better?” So after a few minutes of thinking, I came up with the following reasons why I use Ubuntu.