My preferred UI is the Awesome WM so I know how you feel but I think Unity is going down the right road for several reasons: + Composited desktop means a X11 a

My preferred UI is the Awesome WM so I know how you feel but I think Unity is going down the right road for several reasons: + Composited desktop means a X11 artifact free experience. + Keyboard shortcuts for most tasks + Unified experience for different apps/programs + The windows key is no longer a dead key - Custom key bindings are hard