Unity is a horrendous backwards step in usability and stability. Menu bars are unceremoniously ripped out of windows and placed at the top of the screen. Applic

Unity is a horrendous backwards step in usability and stability. Menu bars are unceremoniously ripped out of windows and placed at the top of the screen. Applications are not complicit in this, so you end up with silly situations where, say, Pidgin is the foreground application, but when you go to the menu bar you can't add a new contact because conversation window is focused instead of the contact list window. To make it worse, the menu bar only appears when you hover over it, so you can't go directly to the menu you want -- you have to make a rough guess based on memory and then correct once you get there. And if you don't know about it in the first place, there's no affordance to indicate that the menus will be there -- tough luck for new users. The new launcher (dock) seemed to be very unstable in 11.04, often disappearing permanently or becoming empty, but that doesn't seem to be so much of a problem in 11.10.