I agree. And from what I have read/seen as far as Unity goes is that it is not ready for prime time just yet. On the other hand, Gnome 3 looks pretty awesome. Just saying.

Gnome 3 is great...if you have compatible graphics processing.

Ubuntu (and Gnome for that matter) are facing an interesting challenge there. Do you try to take Windows head on and assume your target customer is running new hardware? or do you try to keep the installed base of Linux users happy? Many of those are using Linux on older hardware precisely because it's still pretty snappy on those machines, while Windows is too bloated. It seems hard to have it both ways.

You got it backwards -- newer hardware is the problem ;)

Gnome shell mandates compositing.

Unity doesn't because it has a fallback shell that mimics actual unity 100%.

Awesome yes, but Gnome3 also doesn't seem stable enough yet.

Fedora 15 with the latest updates and official NVIDIA drivers, its been my main environment for the last week with very little problem (especially considering FC15 is still Alpha).

My main gripe is the lack of preferences in the GUI, but a little google + cl fixes that.

I think that is that they are talking about. To have or Not to have a classic-desktop option by default.