I just installed Ubuntu Quantal beta 2 (in a virtual machine), using their Unity user interface just long enough to reinstall the gnome classic UI (sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback), and trying to get to their GUI package manager, I type in "packages" (because they don't have a menu system to find programs anymore), and I get a screen full of CDs it wants me to buy.

I may actually need to stop using Ubuntu.

Opened a bug.

Screenshot.

I'm so angry I'm shaking.

This has been popping up NSFW images, which Ubuntu says they won't fix.

Slashdot discussion.
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Update 2012-10-31: The EFF doesn't like it either: 'What EFF Wants From Ubuntu ... Disable "Include online search results" by default. ....'

X has been the standard graphical interface for unix type operating systems since the 80s.

There have been many attempts at replacing it, because priorities have changed significantly. X was designed largely for network transparency (running a program on one computer while displaying it on another over a network). That has gotten in the way.

The replacement is Wayland.

Announcement from the SABDFL.

The default chat client in Karmic, the next Ubuntu release, is empathy, and it forces you to save all passwords.

Complain here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/118800
(Or let me know if you have a better idea.)

Update: This is now marked high priority for the Karmic release, so I expect it to get fixed.