Comment Re:Long time Ubuntu User here (Score 1) 798
I've never met anyone who has used Ubuntu and who likes Unity, power user, novice, script kiddie...
Well now you've met at least one, me. Virtually met, anyway.
I'm probably considered a power user (programmer as a day job, using Ubuntu with Unity at work and home), and for me it does what I need, its intuitive and simple, and gets out of my way to let me be productive (or not be productive, depending on my mood!). I can see a few rough edges/bugs, but 11.10 irons most of those out and I still quite like it.
The only lesson for Canonical to learn, in my opinion, is to take a little more time when releasing a major change like this to iron out bugs first. I think that had it have worked as intended straight off the bat, many more people would have seen the broader picture of the benefits it delivers, and we wouldn't be having discussions like this.