Yup, I agree. At work my machine had Ubuntu 14.04 preinstalled when I started in late 2014 and I gave it a couple of months but couldn't get friendly with Unity

Yup, I agree. At work my machine had Ubuntu 14.04 preinstalled when I started in late 2014 and I gave it a couple of months but couldn't get friendly with Unity. Eventually I installed Debian unstable (which I've been using with xfce on my private laptop for years) over it —it's a university, I can run whatever distro I like. I'm really happy with Gnome 3 with some very minor extensions (alt-tab behaviour, workspaces in a grid). That said, the Ubuntu setup had one bug that still cracks me up from time to time. I have two monitors, one of them rotated 90°. Sometimes I would get two cursors, one of them rotated 90° and shifted to the side by ~1cm.