[mickt]

Unity reminds me a bit of Afterstep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterStep

However, after using regular E/Gnome/KDE/OS X/Windows for so long I feel handicapped with it; for example I can't right click on Unity bar to customise it and it doesn't seem to behave as I expect it to. I guess part of this is because of learned behaviours over the years and I've gotten used to UI's working in certain ways.

I'm not willing to rule Unity out, yet. But, I'm not going to upgrade my main Ubuntu system to 11.04 unless I can be guaranteed I can move to regular Gnome and back to Unity without problems. At the moment, I believe that, Ubuntu 11.04 only supports Unity and the Gnome 3 packages are in a PPA (Personal Package Archive) that isn't fully supported, yet, and might be quiet buggy.

I've also been thinking about going back to using Debian as I'm finding some of the ease that Ubuntu is bringing to Linux is at odds to a long-time *nix user like myself.