And there's precisely the point: "it will not be on my workstation". Unity is aiming for the desktop market, not the workstation market. My desktop is Windows

And there's precisely the point: "it will not be on my workstation". Unity is aiming for the desktop market, not the workstation market. My desktop is Windows, because it allows me to consume media, browse the web, shove stuff onto my iPod with iTunes, and at no point do I actually have to think. My workstation is debian with fvwm2. Ubuntu is "linux for human beings", not "linux for development workstations". This is not necessarily a problem.