"Such criticism misses the mark, because it misses the point of
what the desktop operating system has become or, rather, what it's
becoming. Canonical's latest Ubuntu release may not have added new
menus or graphics, but it made big news on the server side by
making Ubuntu friendly to cloud computing. That is the point.
"Whether you prefer Mac, Windows, or Linux for your desktop
client, when was the last time that you saw big improvements? I'm a
big Mac fan, but it has been years since Apple introduced something
(Expose, in my case) that really wowed me and changed the way I use
my computer."