A task-centric desktop...

[debd]

I don't follow. There's plenty of alternatives to Unity in Ubuntu. KDE,
XFCE and LXDE are the most comprehensive and supported desktop
environments, and there's probably of the order of 20 window managers
if you like tinkering with things.

Why does a dislike of Unity require an abandonment of Ubuntu? Was
Ubuntu's own Gnome 2 theme the only reason you first started using it?


Owww! did i really say that in those few words? :D
My point was to let people who are finding Unity / GNOME 3 difficult to use, know about the current adoption of GNOME 3 by Mint which might show them a way to migrate to GNOME 3 or may be Unity.
Of course with linux, you got lots of choise and abandoning unity doesn't have to mean abandoning Ubuntu.
So, chilll.