What is it about Ubuntu Linux that makes otherwise competent technical writers switch to Moron Mode? Everywhere I turn, I see articles on how to do obvious things in Ubuntu. Books on Ubuntu concentrate on listing every insignificant detail of every obvious procedure; things that are inherently self-explanatory are explained in depth. Subjects that have any inkling of technical complexity are skipped because, "Whoa -- those are way too hard for you stupid Ubuntu users to grasp, so let's just skip them and pretend everything's peachy." The best I can guess is that article writers and book authors assume that if you were capable of something more technical, you would be using Slackware or Debian, not Ubuntu.

I don't know what specifically pushed me over the edge about Ubuntu articles. Maybe it was the daily "How to do something obvious in Ubuntu" blog post on the front page of Digg; maybe it was the umpteenth "Ubuntu for complete and utter noobs" book that I've been offered for review; maybe it was the fact that I was writing a Linux migration book for moderately technical people until the publisher decided that it, too, needed to be the umpteenth-and-first "Ubuntu for complete and utter noobs" iteration; maybe it's all of the above.

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