I didn’t like Unity when I first installed…whatever version of Ubuntu was first afflicted with it. Back then, I just switched to Gnome Classic with…something or other…and that was it. When I updated to 13.04, I decided to give Unity another try. At first, I hated it, but that’s not unusual when you change to a different interface; you can’t do what you do as fast as before because it’s different. I kept Unity for a while, and eventually got used to it, but never liked it, and especially not when I had Netflix in full-screen on my left monitor, which covered the stupid…whatever the fuck that string of giant icons sucking up screen real estate down the side is called. I couldn’t put one on my right monitor because Unity isn’t designed for a dual-monitor setup and allows only one. So, if I wanted to have Chrome open to half-assed read/surf/shop while watching Netflix in fullscreen, I had to open Chrome, drag it over to the right screen, then start Netflix and make sure I didn’t accidentally minimize Chrome or it would disappear to the…whatever string of icons (WTF is that thing called…Dash, maybe?) and be hidden behind Netflix unless I backed out of the active stream to the Netflix home page and hit F11 to exit full-screen. Yeah…that didn’t piss me off one bit. Don’t get me started on how much Unity and Chrome do not like each other and how I’d constantly have to Ctrl+Alt+Del to force Chrome to minimize. I don’t mind Firefox–used it for years–but I prefer Chrome, so suck it, Unity. What used to be Gnome Fallback, for GPUs that couldn’t manage the Unity effects is now called Gnome Flashback, and I finally got around to not only setting that as my default login, but figuring out why the fuck I could see and select my beloved “Neutral” cursor theme, but it wouldn’t actually be used. In the old days of Gnome, you could theme it any goddamned way you wanted, and all of the settings were in your /home, so you didn’t have to dick around with root access just to have a different fucking pointer. No more. Now, it’s in /usr/share/icons (I think), and I don’t like that one bit. Half of the reason I use Linux is because I can do whatever I want, and since it’s almost always just in my userspace, if I fuck something up, it’s not a disaster. Ubuntu is turning into Windows, except with a root password. I thought about Mint, but I have years of Gnome preferences in my /home (since it’s always on a separate partition and I just point whatever OS I install to it for settings), and I have all of the software I use already installed. I dunno…but for now, I have my Neutral cursor, and Gnome Fallback doesn’t hate Chrome the way that shitty Unity did…so fuck Unity. It’s still installed because I’m going to take a nap and can’t be arsed to remove it, but I set LightDM to use gnome-fallback (/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, for when I forget), so Unity can suck it.