I still prefer plain jane. I have TMO Galaxy S 4G, and it's a glorified PDA
which is what I want. (I bought it for the screen and processor)
I've rooted the thing, although no custom ROM.

I have ebooks, Astronomy programs, Star Charts, Audubon Guidebooks, and recipes
stashed on the card. I deleted all the social and entertainment stuff after I
rooted. I don't care for widgets, either.

This is the same way I feel about desktops. I don't spend much time looking at
the desktop, I don't sync or auto anything - all I need is a good menu to the
software I do want.

I use FF on windows - I can turn off images on the fly, disallow javascript by
noscript and tab permissions, forbid helper apps from opening. It doesn't seem
to work that well on Ubuntu, so I'm using Chrome, having to look at background
images and now looking at other browsers. I do use Opera, but configuring it is
a pain.

I don't care about cloud computing. External HD are cheap. And private!
I've only got 2 80G HD on the desktop, got both years ago, and neither is 1/4
way filled! All photos are on CDs or now external HD.

I see the computer as a tool, and not entertainment. So I just feel that there
should be some accommodation for those of us that feel that way. Ubuntu is very
close - but with Unity it is close to pushing the envelope. W/o Unity, you could
probably do with slower hardware - you can turn Unity off, but can you even get
it to run on a lesser configuration? Example: I see no reason to have to upgrade
to a quad core processor, when my dual core does what I want.