It's called karma bonus.

And medical and television and F1 IIRC.

The thing is that even though for desktop compositing the FOSS drivers are absolutely brilliant they don't do well at all in anything 3D related. And when I say don't do well I mean it in a 95% decrease way (if the blob will do 100fps foss will do 5).

How about, instead of constantly trying to push even higher bandwidths, trying to compete on who makes the most long living devices. I'm not talking about TVs being passed on from father to son, but living a couple of times longer than the guarantee would be nice for once.

The problem is that if I do that I will end up with a buggy Unity installation that will work 99% like an out of the box Gnome3. So why waste the time hacking on making Unity work when I can waste that time hacking on something that will actually produce something.

Unity does not have one thing I want from my DE that Gnome doesn't provide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Control_(OS_X)

originally it's an OSX feature widely employed by other compositing WMs. in Gnome 3 it can be activated when you point at the left top corner in addition to the usual super key. It is very helpful when working only with a mouse and useful when you have both hands on the keyboard and are fishing for one elusive document across your workspaces.

I haven't heard of anything like that before. Could it be that Microsoft just lined those guys' pockets? Everybody know that the Xbox division has been given unrestricted playroom in order to get exclusivity...

AFAIK the font size issue is a Unity only "Feature". On gnome I've never had it, but I think the earliest Gnome3 install I did for an HTPC was Gnome3.2 so maybe it existed in earlier versions. The only issues I have from an HTPC perspective was that I can't set the cursor size efficiently on any DE I've tried without starting to hack around. Also if you are going to go the large text way (which you are if you are doing an HTPC) I'd recommend using Adwaita in stead of whatever emerald theme your distro ships. Other themes might work well too but for example the Ubuntu Ambiance theme doesn't resize the close button if you set the bars to lrage,x-large or xx-large (my fave, feels more balanced with text-scale=1.9) which sucks. also you can do some easy seds on the emerald themes to regain the correct curvature on your windows.

Nope, the correct nvidia drivers are installed. It's just too much work for the CPU.
Unity2D only will help if you can't handle the graphics load. the problem with this PC though lies also with the CPUs power.

Good for you.
I, on the other hand, like my expose on the top left active corner and super key window positioning. Unity only with a mouse is like a phone UI on a desktop, pretty but too much effort and very cumbersome... Like win8

One very insightful thing:

Scrolling
Did anybody notice how the metro interface is generally horizontally scrolling?

What I perceived in a tablet try out was that while vertical scrolling is very easy and comfortable (you an have both your hands on the device and still scroll perfectly fine), horizontal scrolling, mostly due to the UX mandated device bezels and human anatomy, is much more difficult to do since you get roughly a third of the area of responsive screen real estate, unless you keep one hand free and we all know what that means..

(I hate to be the Gnome lover but in this thread I turned out to be just that guy.)

You know that all your problems could be solved with gnome 3 right? specially the living room pc thing (aka mouse only environment).

No it's not.

In a mouse only environment you have to fish for the "expose desktops" button whereas in gnome 3 it is one concise move. In keyboard only mode you have to do a combination, not very difficult but much less effective than a single keypress. The UI does not deform properly upon parametrization, the hotbar shortcuts are irrelevant once you have actually started the programs (and you are in flow) which is the biggest part of your productive time, otherwise why are they there, lenses mess up the experience and unnecessarily populate your activities,I could go on but I thing my general position is made clear.

Unity does. Gnome 3 I'm using almost exclusively for the last six months. But hey I tinker a lot with my devices.

Actually gnome 3 works acceptably on an 8 year old Sony VAIO. Unity runs at .2 fps. Seriously!

What I can't digest about the unity interface is that it can't be effectively used as a mouse oriented UI nor can it be effectively used as a keyboard only UI. And that really makes a big difference for me. In an HTPC mouse only environment it is much easier to just use Gnome3 (even the theming for the living room aka huge fonts and buttons) are better applied by gnome shell. On the workstation again Gnome 3 works better because the keyboard mappings are very very concise and thought out, to the point where you can get to the behavioral patterns of a tiling wm without having done one modification. Unity? its nice if you have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. Only that I am 99% less productive like that and it really doesn't make any sense.. And don't start talking about the hud thing because it plainly doesn't deliver.