Well, I'm in two minds. I've often disliked how Ubuntu, Mint, Gnome, Kde et al have attempted to ape Microsoft's and Apple's desktop experience with only a few new novel features in an attempt to gain mass acceptance, more often than not completely ignoring the fundamental philosophy of Unix, the philosophy that makes Unix-derivatives so great. Then again, it has made more desktop hardware manufacturers take notice of Linux, due to its increasing mass appeal, which has improved hardware support. At least there's enough diversity in the Unix eco-system for me to completely ignore the aforementioned for more novel systems, even though most of the effort seems to be going into aping Windows and OS X.