I still prefer Unity to Gnomeshell. But the 10.04 -> 12.04 era was the only time I stayed on LTS so I could avoid the early Unity versions. By 12.04 Unity was p

I still prefer Unity to Gnomeshell. But the 10.04 -> 12.04 era was the only time I stayed on LTS so I could avoid the early Unity versions. By 12.04 Unity was pretty solid and usable, but like KDE 4.0 a lot of the people it alienated during the early versions never came back to it.