[sielskr]

I've been unhappy with X since I learned enough (in the 90s) to have an opinion -- but not for the reason Shuttleworth gives:

"We don’t believe X is setup to deliver the user experience we want, with super-smooth graphics and effects. I understand that it’s possible to get amazing results with X, but it’s extremely hard, and isn’t going to get easier. Some of the core goals of X make it harder to achieve these user experiences on X than on native GL"

My unhappiness stems from my perception that the ways I have tried to customize X and things closely coupled to X (e.g., my window manager) have proved much more difficult (and in particular have forced me to contend with much more complexity) than they could have.

[wmf]

In that case, I think you'll hate future Ubuntu because (like its mentor OS X) it won't be very configurable at all. Easy things will be easy and everything else will be impossible.

[hasenj]

Except the code will be open so if Canonical doesn't make it configurable, other people can, and if they do it right without introducing unneeded complexity, their patches might just make it upstream (Ubuntu).

This is assuming of course that people who like to fiddle with their display will stay with Ubuntu.

Not many people like to do that anyway. But if there are people who want that kind of control, it's not impossible.