As a long-time user, I must say they've come very far already. I'm one of those who always appreciated Unity and never got the whole hate thing. I really like t

As a long-time user, I must say they've come very far already. I'm one of those who always appreciated Unity and never got the whole hate thing. I really like the experience on my HP Elitebook 8740w. But I recently thought about installing Steam, for which I needed to use the proprietary graphics drivers to be able to play its more demanding games. I thought my entertainment to be just another 'apt-get install' away. I have never been so wrong. Canonical should start handing out medals to people who survived replacing their graphical drivers with those provided by AMD/ATI. It's a hellish experience, taking your heart and mind on a rollercoaster of emotions, only to see the tracks end right in front of you when the installer fails and then get catapulted into the dark void that is a system with a broken graphics driver. Digging about in the root shell was the only option left. Adding insult to injury, their uninstall scripts usually only work halfway, breaking any further installs because it never uninstalled fully. Which then pretty much leaves no other option then to start 'forcing' installs and hoping for the best. And lo and behold, after wrestling with some packages, purging everything that remotely looked like it knew fglrx, I had my desktop back. But what a chore it was. So I would really love it if those hardware manufacturers provide a better and less-volatile experience when Mir launches. Perhaps the oft-rumoured SteamBox could accelerate said process even further... Installing a graphics driver shouldn't be a fight between life and death for a system.