For me, its funny to see how so called linux geeks and power users hates GS and Unity so much. Now I understand where the 2% desktop share comes from, seriously, our attitude (and taste?) toward USER experience and UI is bad. In fact, GS and Unity made my hope with desktop Linux high. That there are somebody out there actually care about how Linux apps and desktop both attractive and usable.

Agreed. Paralysis by analysis maybe the right term for this situation. I mean, just read all those post by tech analysts, we're in the middle of tablet-smartphone hype and those who use desktop PCs sounds like stegosaurs close to extinction.

Would that conclude that Apple engineers is doing better than any of KDE, Gnome, and Canonical guys? Personally, I don't understand why linux power users are so harsh about KDE4-Gnome3-Unity. Is it because of there are nobody out there have a good design of new DE for Linux or the users are refusing to leave the old ones? If Gnome 2 and KDE 3.5 are so good then why there is no body fork it out instead of whining?