I'm happy to see a fresh take on the desktop, but I was surprised that Unity is the default in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. From my experience, Unity requires

I'm happy to see a fresh take on the desktop, but I was surprised that Unity is the default in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. From my experience, Unity requires pretty fast 3D hardware to run acceptably. My wife's netbook has slow graphics hardware (because it's a netbook!), so back to the standard GNOME desktop, hiding panels to win some vertical space.