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Question Answered By: Adah Miller   on Feb 04

Probably, but it won't do you much good as Gnome 3 seems set to go in much the
same direction as Unity. It would seem that both the Gnome team and Canonical
have decided that they want to support the tablet user at the expense of the
desktop and laptop users - which, if that's what they want to do and where they
see the future for their product, is fine.

But, as someone else has pointed out, while fine for tablets and the kind of
'trivial' (for want of a better word) tasks you'd want to perform on them,
trying to use a Unity style desktop for 'serious' work is a major PITA and the
desktop PC is far from dead - it hasn't even suffered a flesh wound at the hand
of the tablet - which is why I personally think that the decision to abandon the
desktop user with the current incarnations of Unity and Gnome 3 is the wrong
decision.

I've decided to stick with 10.04 for the time being but, with regret, to seek a
new distro between now and the cessation of support - unless there are some
major changes in philosophy at Canonical in the meantime. It's a pity. Ubuntu
has been good to me since the Breezy Badger and it's not a decision I've made
lightly, but it's one I now feel somewhat forced to make.

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