Guess that's the biggest difference between Linux and Windows/Apple.
Linux is all about choice - Windows/Apple is all about 'Get what we
give you and like it' !!

I wasn't too unhappy with Unity and can see it being good for the
non-power user but at least you can add the KDE desktop and switch
between them if you want - Unity for playing, KDE for working. I
preferred to just use KDE so went with Kubuntu directly.

BTW - Just installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity for a customer and they
like it a lot over the fuss and confusion of Vista :-) This is an
older laptop that won't take Win7 ( which was their initial thought )
but checked the model number and it was really a no-go, lots of users
found it just didn't work no matter what they tried. Left it as a
dual-boot just in case but I think they'll be perfectly happy with a
nice, stable, easy to use laptop now :-)