There was a time around 2008 when I thought Ubuntu could be that solid ecosystem. That me, a customer I'm supporting, a developer I'm submitting a bug report to, the author of an FAQ I'm reading, a fellow user I'm helping out in the forums, a package maintainer testing a binary release and a hardware vendor debugging their drivers might all be seeing the same things on our screens and getting the same responses to the same commands at our terminals.

Unfortunately it seems like Canonical does not share my vision.