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When did you last time try Unity - it has improved a lot since first versions? I bought MBP few months ago and I find myself a lot less productive with OSX than with Ubuntu+Unity.

About your edit. Are you sure? They are not in application window for me.

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Not sure it has improved as far as the UI look goes. That ugly oversized left bar is hideous, as are all the badly low res gifs they seem to be using for icons. Look at osx or windows which have been doing crisp looking icons for a while. I could not bear to use ubuntu, have tried, went back to osx + windows 7.

You actually can customize the size of the dock, and have it set up to hide/show based on mouse position or keyboard shortcuts. There's a lot of options if you install "unity-tweak-tool"

There are also some nice alternative icon sets, like the Numix icons. Overall, I really like Unity now compared to when I first tried it a few years ago, and I'd rather use it than Windows 7 or 8. But it probably does need a couple of tweaks to fit your needs.

I have not tried Ubuntu for a couple of years. I'm very happily using Bodhi Linux on my daily computers at home. No plans to change.

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