Assuming Unitiy won't be mature enough, I'll stick with the current LTS version and wait another year. Upgrading an existing Ubuntu installation in the passed turned out not to be going so well. So to be sure, I always do a clean install which I prefere to do once in two or three years. Been with Ubuntu since Gutsy and still loving it.

Totally agree KDE is head and shoulders above Ubuntu's current unity gui offering. Aesthetically is so much better. I find Ubuntu's icons for instance are Fisher Price esque, almost childlike. The default wallpaper is ugly. I admire what Canonical has done with Ubuntu and for Linux but I feel with them shifting to qt apps, KDE perhaps with some kind of dock and improved aesthetics would of been the way to go. Meanwhile Ubuntu now looks like a Fisher Price OS with a toy town gui when in fact its a very good operating system.

Totally agree KDE is head and shoulders above Ubuntu's current unity gui offering. Aesthetically is so much better. I find Ubuntu's icons for instance are Fisher Price esque, almost childlike. The default wallpaper is ugly. I admire what Canonical has done with Ubuntu and for Linux but I feel with them shifting to qt apps, KDE perhaps with some kind of dock and improved aesthetics would of been the way to go. Meanwhile Ubuntu now looks like a Fisher Price OS with a toy town gui when in fact its a very good operating system.

At first I hated the Unity Desktop, but as I use it I find it more appealing. Its a little like OS X, in that it moves the menus to the panel bar instead of the window itself. I have a Mac and it took a while to get the hang of OS X and the same applies to Unity. The only thing that is really lacking is the customization that I have become accustom to in GNOME 2. I have noticed however that with each daily release some of the customizations are returning.

Still getting numerous crashes associated with synaptic and software updates and installations, we'll see on the 28th.

I have been using Ubuntu for over two years now. I used "Google Trends" and typed in half a dozen of the well known brands to see which one was creating more interest, and chose that one. It was as simple as that.

At first, I used Virtualbox and ran Windows within Ubuntu. by having it in a separate screen, I didn't have to wait the long times whilst loading as I could get on with my other work on another screen.

I gradually sourced all the programs I needed to use and within the first six months, removed Windows from my PC entirely.

And have never looked back.

Go Ubuntu!Go Linux!
Albeit, I prefer Kubuntu and KDE.
KDE is by far the most advanced GUI of desktop computing.
It has the ability to have different virtual workspaces each empowered with a different set of wallpapers and widgets running at the same time.You have to see it to believe it.It makes windowz and macs to seem so primitive in comparison.
Linux not only is ready for the desktop but actually is the only viable desktop solution.