> I could put Ubuntu on a 2001 laptop and be completely fine, fast enough, usable enough to do just about everything I needed. This use case is an edge case, a

> I could put Ubuntu on a 2001 laptop and be completely fine, fast enough, usable enough to do just about everything I needed. This use case is an edge case, and you could still serve it by using a non-default desktop (like lubuntu). Laptops from 2001 have super-weak cpus and gpus, and aren't a representative sample of desktop users. At one of the two companies I work for, more than half the developers use Ubuntu, and all-but-one (me) use Unity and like it. I use KDE there because of old-school configurability, but after a couple of years of dealing with KDE's bugginess, it's time to move on, methinks.