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Most people hate Unity. They are sticking with it. Canonical needs to be profitable.

OK, so which distribution is everyone switching over to in place of Ubuntu?

Don't bother leaving Ubuntu, just install XFCE, gnome-panel[1], or make a leap into the world of the tiling WM with the package awesome[2].

[1]I think this is the name of the Gnome 2 package. Personally, I couldn't stand Gnome 2 and even preferred Unity; I didn't jump into the world of the tiling WM until compiz started crashing my GPU.

[2] at http://awesome.naquadah.org/ ; I don't like the name, but I love the WM.

"Most people hate Unity."

Can you show me the data that you've gathered on this? I'd love to see the user survey.

(Is it maybe possible that just because you don't like something, others still could?)

I am one of the few people that I have run into using Unity.. I don't hate it.. its just that I haven't heard much of anything else about Unity except "god I hate Unity". Not scientific.

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