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Note: edited, other people made the other points I made

Digressive: "Always wanting to be cutting-edge, I decided I would would start with ubuntu 14.04", shouldn't that be 15.04 then? (latest I could see in the mirrors at least)

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Perhaps the title should be altered. My main argument is that the ecosystem around python3 is what's holding it back. I think the language itself is perfectly ready, and even most major packages have been ported over.

The daily builds of the 15.04 alpha may be on the mirrors but what he meant was cutting-edge stable. Had he used an unstable daily build, his arguments would have been much less relevant.

I agree that going for the actual cutting edge would be a bit silly, but mentioning "cutting edge" and then using just the latest LTS (noting that 14.10 also exists), seems a bit silly to me.

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