Lost what? Sorry, lump me into the camp of linux die-hards who don't much care for Ubuntu. I grudgingly use it at OSI[1] because it's our standard, but I much prefer Fedora or CentOS. Although, once I muster up the time and energy to switch this Ubuntu box to KDE, I'll probably like it a lot more.
Anyway, having used Ubuntu on my work desktop for the past year and a half, I don't see what all the hype is about. It isn't "better" than Fedora in any way that is particularly noticeable to me, and the much vaunted "apt-get" seems to do exactly what yum does for me on Fedora. If it's better, it's such an incremental level of "better" that I find it hardly distinguishable.
RPM/yum has grown up a lot, and yes -- it works as well or better than apt-get at basically everything now (openSUSE's zypper is actually spiffier still). But for a long time Debian and its derivatives had an overwhelmingly better package management experience, and a much larger universe of packages to draw on than the RPM distros did. And this intuition persists in the community.
Though I will say this: for all the feature and usability improvements we've seen in yum, the Fedora people seem to be trying their damndest to break them all by this insane wrapping in "PackageKit" that manages to succeed in both dumbing it down to the level of unusability and "enhancing" the power user experience by spending 3-5 seconds every time you typo a command trying to figure out how to install "mkdri".
FWIW, Ubuntu has it's own "waste time everytime you typo a command" functionality, at least in the release I'm on. It's actually useful every once in a blue moon...
Anyway, having used Ubuntu on my work desktop for the past year and a half, I don't see what all the hype is about. It isn't "better" than Fedora in any way that is particularly noticeable to me, and the much vaunted "apt-get" seems to do exactly what yum does for me on Fedora. If it's better, it's such an incremental level of "better" that I find it hardly distinguishable.
But Unity... uuugggghhhhhh....
[1]: http://www.osintegrators.com