well then make it possible for people to chose their color-scheme. Which is actually possible to some degree in Windows XP. On the other hand why is the color of cars sold not evenly distributed? It tends to bias to a certain color? Why do people say that the Zune looks butt-ugly and the iPhone looks sleek and elegant? But then again, if you default to such a very strange default color-scheme, then make it changeable easily. However it IS NOT easily changeable in Ubuntu. Sure, you can switch from Human to Clearlooks easily. But what about gdm? What about usplash? And even if you know how to change that, it is not easy to find nice replaceables! Just take a look at gnome-look and try to find something nice "complete" theme, with fitting usplash, gdm and theme. You really have to search. Why don't we hear complaints about MacOS X? If you stick to a theme like Ubuntu which polarizes so much, then make it easy to switch (and least the color scheme) and add three to five easy-accessible alternatives. Like some white/blue-ish thing, black/green or something.