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I, as an end user, care about what I see and interact with. Why should I care about what's behind the scenes? If replacing the X is what it takes to reach the goal so be it.

Of course, if it turns into something designed to takes away my freedoms, then I have to worry.

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The thing is that you are sacrificing your freedom to it. You're being slowly locked into another incompatible platform.

One of the great freedoms of open source software is to go "fuck you disty, I'm off to another one". When all your stuff is coded against Mir, Upstart and Unity, you no longer have that luxury.

Also, beauty is only skin deep.

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