You should try Kubuntu (aka, install KDE in your Ubuntu). Far much better that Unity, and you can customize ANYTHING. Even, you could do that look&feel similar

You should try Kubuntu (aka, install KDE in your Ubuntu). Far much better that Unity, and you can customize ANYTHING. Even, you could do that look&feel similar to OS X . The only thing that I appreciate from OS X (I don't have it, but I thought about getting it, and I have some contact with it on a friend's mac), was am assumption that is very polished in all aspects. Reading this article makes to think that isn't true any more.