They haven't driven me away - I like Unity, it's not perfect, but it works well. I find that Unity lets me get on with my work, and provides access to every th

They haven't driven me away - I like Unity, it's not perfect, but it works well. I find that Unity lets me get on with my work, and provides access to every thing I need to do so in a fairly logical, economical way. There are always sacrifices that need to be made when working with Linux - but the advantages out way the disadvantages for me. I expect to have to spend time configuring my system because I have freedom to choose the what runs on my system and how I choose to use it. Change is uncomfortable - but unless it occurs incrementally, any open source OS is going to stagnate. When all other competing closed source operating systems are stretching the paradigms they operate within, this kind of stagnation would mean that Ubuntu would be left behind. Ubuntu needs to innovate if it's going to remain useful and relevant. Perhaps part of the problem was that Ubuntu had been tied to Gnome for so long. It seems to me that in order to address this, the current period of development is less of an increment - and more of a leap - than it comfortably should have been.