I don't mind the some of the directions they have taken with Unity (I've switched to Gnome 3 at this time, I feel more comfortable it, even with no shutdown/re

I don't mind the some of the directions they have taken with Unity (I've switched to Gnome 3 at this time, I feel more comfortable it, even with no shutdown/restart option in menu ;p) but the shear lack of ability to customize is really annoying. I understand them choosing defaults but why take away all ability to customize? Also, some changes still make no sense to me, the buttons on the left still annoy me. The dock sometimes interferes with those buttons when the windows aren't maximized. I guess I'm no longer their target audience. I feel sad about that as their really isn't many alternative I find appealing. I could use Debian directly but I still find that Ubuntu was doing a great job at cleaning up tedious issues with Linux. Their new installer that asks questions while writing files to disk is such an obvious thing it should have been done years ago. There is plenty of other areas that they've truly improved in the Linux experience. The last UI stuff is just not there yet. I'll continue to use it with Gnome 3 for now.