> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless.

The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology.

> Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades".

About 10? That's years, not decades. Even 5 years ago they were well under 5% weren't they?

I'm glad to hear that OSX suits you, that's fine. What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. Personally I find that both Unity and OSX have DEs that really get in my way without a lot of tweaking, but both can be made to give a reasonable experience.

I wouldn't have said anything, and just chalked it up as someone making an opinionated comment that I disagree with if it weren't for the ridiculous line about Ubuntu's ideology being hopeless.