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> This moreover confirms to me that Ubuntu is turning the distro into something that everyone's mom/dad can use. While that's fine for popularizing linux, that isn't the OS I signed up for years ago.

Weather you were aware of it or not, that is exactly the distro you signed up for. Being end-user friendly has always been a primary goal of Ubuntu.

That doesn't have to be a conflict. Just as you can easily use KDE or XFCE with Ubuntu through the Kubuntu and Xubuntu distributions, I'm sure you can easily choose "classic" GNOME.

or... GNubuntu :-D

Nobody will force you to use Unity. As a power user you should already know that even when Unity becomes the default on Ubuntu you will still be able to use any other window manager.

Do you say that in a capacity as a desktop power user or as a server admin?