Personally I think Unity is fairly awful on the desktop, but - let's face it - the future of computing is not the desktop it's mobile devices, tablets etc. etc. <div><br></div><div>Ubuntu is positioning itself so that when the next generation of machines come around it'll be right up there with Windows etc. - if Ubuntu is seen as "the norm" in 5 years then the decision will have been correct.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the meantime, fair play to Canonical etc. in being brave and not sticking to "what we knew" in order to appease us metaphorical "old fogies set in their ways"... </div><div><div>
<br></div><div>Sean</div></div>