I'm *not* an ubuntu user anymore specifically because of Unity. The decisions that led to that steaming pile of garbage being used as the default Ubuntu interface were infuriating at best. Hardly any user testing went into it....hell, hardly any *technical* testing went into it, which is very troubling on a number of levels. I cannot trust Canonical to make rational decisions about the software they include in the core distribution anymore, so I've switched to vanilla Debian for all of my servers, Slackware + Enlightenment for my workstations, and a Mac workstation when there's one available.

It's not about being "too cool". It's about being sick of a crappy, poorly thought out interface that caters to users that want everything done for them. Power users and people that know what they're doing typically don't want magic - they want to know what's happening on their system and to not have an interface like Unity shoved down their throat.

That's still irrelevant because you wouldn't use Git for that anyways.

git is better than all the other VCSes

So....maybe this will be the writer's excuse to upgrade the look/feel of the show: A system update came, bringing Vista. The system all of a sudden experiences a lot of crashes/malfunctions/glitches/etc., but everything looks really nice. On the other hand, all of the aesthetic upgrades really don't do anything useful, so the system downgrades itself to an older, yet more stable and functional OS: XP. Completely joking here, of course. I completely agree with you.