@eric there are warts in the coreutils, I won't deny that. People like to meme on the implementation of `cat` in particular but there are others. Ubuntu has often been on the Betamax side of history in the past (Mir... Upstart... Unity... Snap...) so this may be another instance of that, but I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm not a daily Ubuntu driver so its more of a popcorn situation for me, but I can understand the apprehension too.