It's much more important to me to be able to change the resolution on my monitor (impossible to do anything other than 480x640 on 9.10) than what color the defa

It's much more important to me to be able to change the resolution on my monitor (impossible to do anything other than 480x640 on 9.10) than what color the default theme is. What I mean to say is that for Ubuntu to displace Windows in any measurable amount, the things that users expect to work have to work. While I am happy to edit my xorg.conf file because ubuntu doesn't recognize certain graphics card/monitor combinations, my mother would not. My office laptop was recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. The background colors and overall theme changed. After a few days, I didn't notice it any more, nor was there a HN post about the color scheme change. What I did notice was that offline folders worked a lot better than with XP. Those are the changes that actually make a difference to users. Users adapt to different themes and visuals pretty quickly. Ubuntu has made huge strides in desktop linux usability, but Canonical needs to continue to focus on ironing out the last remaining kinks so it "just works."