mcbed00

That's not good enough. Defaults are extremely important in software, because that's the experience novice users will be stuck with permanently.

It's not even implemented in an intuitive or user-friendly way. When you search your computer, you don't expect Amazon search results to randomly appear.

Compare the Ubuntu dash search to Spotlight on OSX, it looks very amateurish. Instead of improving it, their developers have to waste their time fudging Amazon search results in.

It's running a Ubuntu variant. I used Ubuntu for many years (and previously recommended it to others). I even helped with repo's at one point.

Canonicals downfall has been long and well-documented. Try to keep up.

The Unity interface has been notoriously buggy and slow. Canonical write core parts of their OS in Python. All my experience with their software indicates it will be slow.

I don't think the people working there are incompetent, more likely overstretched to breaking point.

But are you sure it's a good alternative?

It runs a slow and ugly UI, comes with built-in Amazon ads and privacy concerns, and will drain battery rapidly when using as a desktop, so you won't be able to make a call when your car breaks down on the way home.

If this is the future, count me out.