I'm getting sick of people complaining that Ubuntu keeps changing things. That's what Ubuntu does! They've done that since the beginning! Oh, they've changed the software manager, oh they've changed desktop environments, oh they changed the theme color... stop complaining and switch to something else.
If you're looking for stability and steadfastness, you probably shouldn't be using a distro with a 6 month major release cycle. Things change, things get broken, and if you don't know that about Ubuntu by now, you're doing it wrong.
Maybe so, but issues like this are common in Ubuntu-land. Some people like that. Some don't. They're well-known for releasing new features that are broken and poorly documented. Usually they are fixed in the next release. This happens all the time, and complaining about it every time just gets old.
Bullshit. There are no "some people" who "like that" when Ubuntu does not update documentation to reflect the changes they have made to core functionality. That doesn't make any sense.
Ubuntu/Debian have a very nasty habit of breaking the "principle of least astonishment".
Things like why isn't my '/etc/cron.daily/blah.sh' script not running? I'll give you a hint its the period. Good luck realizing that if you come from any other Unix out there.
There is a need for progress but breaking everything just to try something new (pulseaudio, unity, and so on) is not progress just frustration.
That's a bad excuse for breaking standard functionality for no reason at all.
Debian is my primary distro and I still consider it the least evil - but sadly only in contrast to what the others have on offer.
Their mentality to patch and break everything at the slightest opportunity is a big problem. Don't get me started on the mess they make under /etc with all their ass-backwards wrappers for apache configs etc. Motd is not even the tip of the ice-berg here.
Personally I've long stopped relying on anything but the base-install for this reason.
Anything relevant to an application deploy is compiled from source or installed from a custom deb (postgres, nginx, et al). I have better things to do than figure out the latest brainfart of some package-maintainer about how to scatter a postgres-installation across the filesystem...
If you're looking for stability and steadfastness, you probably shouldn't be using a distro with a 6 month major release cycle. Things change, things get broken, and if you don't know that about Ubuntu by now, you're doing it wrong.