Part of the change to make Ubuntu more accessible to the average user,
plus combining the interface on PC and mobile devices. Not something
the advanced user is happy with but the plan is to make 12.04 LTS a
version that has advanced features though these will need to be
installed rather than be standard.

Guess the thinking is that the advanced user is going to know how to
do this, or find out how to do it, and the non-advanced user isn't
going to be bemused by functions they'll not use.

First thing I'll be doing is installing Synaptic and tweaking 12.04 to
be more to my liking - at least we'll have the option to do that :-)

i> since i have been using synaptic forever, why isn't it installed by
i> default?