Ubuntu has a cultural problem at times, wherein sane bug reports from experienced UNIX users are dismissed as "not getting it", or similar. There seems to be a certain smugness when they make decisions that are obviously wrong, and certitude where there shouldn't be. I don't know why this is so; Debian has a somewhat argumentative culture, and occasionally makes dumb decisions, but folks usually try to argue their way to a consensus rather than just say "This is the way it is". Ubuntu has diverged from that seemingly entirely, and maintainers sometimes make bizarre proclamations and stick to them against all reason.
I think it's an interesting aspect of the different Linux distributions. Someone else mentioned Gentoo being similar to Ubuntu in this regard, and I would agree...though it takes it to such an extreme that it's hard for me to even take it seriously as an OS. At least the end result of Ubuntu's obstinance is pretty solid, even if every new release has some weird quirks that I just can't figure out how they made it through QC (and more often than I'm comfortable with, those quirks are intentional).
I think it's an interesting aspect of the different Linux distributions. Someone else mentioned Gentoo being similar to Ubuntu in this regard, and I would agree...though it takes it to such an extreme that it's hard for me to even take it seriously as an OS. At least the end result of Ubuntu's obstinance is pretty solid, even if every new release has some weird quirks that I just can't figure out how they made it through QC (and more often than I'm comfortable with, those quirks are intentional).