It's not about Ubuntu in particular. Ubuntu just used to combine the concepts and tools in user-friendly way without the need to "tinker".
Where do you turn to for a modern Desktop if everything is going the same (=OSX) direction? The whole point is that staying with Gnome 2.x will put you into an entrenched situation, whereas everyone else is moving on, but in a way which just doesn't fit your way of working, and without perspective that it'll ever fit?
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It's not about Ubuntu in particular. Ubuntu just used to combine the concepts and tools in user-friendly way without the need to "tinker".
Where do you turn to for a modern Desktop if everything is going the same (=OSX) direction? The whole point is that staying with Gnome 2.x will put you into an entrenched situation, whereas everyone else is moving on, but in a way which just doesn't fit your way of working, and without perspective that it'll ever fit?