> Because rather then there being many great distros to choose from and play with there is now really only one.

I really don't understand this comment.

There are very many other distributions, covering a wide range of needs.

- Fedora, Mageia, Sabyon, and Mint Debian : nice desktops, easy to use - Arch, Gentoo, LFS : suitable for power users and tinkering - Slitaz, TinyCore, Puppy : minimal, configurable

etc etc.

None of these are based on Ubuntu.