[Mycroft Holmes]

Let the desktop be a desktop, and experiment with tablet GUI on tablets. Isn't that what everyone - except MS - does?

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Ubuntu felt the need to inflict Unity on its users in the last long term support release. It's incredibly uglly in the same ways as Win8; I shed it first thing for Gnome3/Cairo.

I run Win7 in Virtual Box for the one program I use for work that is only available under MS/.NET There is much that is available for free in the open source world. And if you don't like the way it works you can make it better.

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	I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.
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[Greysard]

Ubuntu felt the need to inflict Unity on its users in the last long term support release. It's incredibly uglly in the same ways as Win8; I shed it first thing for Gnome3/Cairo.

I had the same issues with Unity, and I abandoned Ubuntu Desktop in favor of Mint/KDE. "From Freedom Came Elegance" - very apt [-get.] Ubuntu maintainers were told more than once that Unity is not needed or wanted. Unfortunately, it was pushed through for about the same reasons that foisted Metro|Modern upon hapless Windows users.

[Lexinom]

Hear, hear and hearken to the voice crying in the streets! :)

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04. Linux always has little issues (like figuring out how to get the HDMI audio to work to watch a movie with my sweetie), but it also always has little solutions that are a Google search. Usually a simple edit to a file or a little script, and you can get the system running very smoothly for your needs.

After being on Linux for any length of time, Windows just seems slow and bloated. Linux gives you about a 30% performance boost out of the box vs. Windows because of the lack of plug-and-play. Being stupid is expensive, and if you are willing to be smart with regard to your drivers, you don't need to run all the bloatware for the 99.999999% of the time you don't need it...