I like to think it is a statement: "I don't want to configure this computer, and it will never be in harm's way. Please make my USB devices work magically without causing any headaches."

Usually it works out just fine. Usually.

For what it's worth I work with a number of different distros; Annie runs on OpenSUSE, girlfriend swears by Arch, SciNet is all CentOS (ironic as it sounds for a major supercomputer to use a genericized distro, they don't exactly need off-site support), brother's systems are a mixture of Slackware, Debian, FreeBSD, and maybe one or two Solaris boxes... and I used to consider NetBSD a hobby. So... I think I've earned the right to have a bland Ubuntu install at work.