most people are reluctant to ui change. a small change would piss people off (ios5 to ios7, for example). unity just looks too different. the hatred is not necessarily rational I think.
if unity is going away, out of all the options, I like kde and xfce. I dislike gnome because of my early development experience with gdk.
but my most usage of unity is just the left side bar. I don't use, for example, the search-and-find thing that much.
I like unity's color scheme too.
The only time I was pissed was when they enforced you to do amazon search in unity.
I actually don't think unity has lost to others technical-wise or design-wise. it loses, because it didn't follow the Principle of least astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
most people are reluctant to ui change. a small change would piss people off (ios5 to ios7, for example). unity just looks too different. the hatred is not necessarily rational I think.
if unity is going away, out of all the options, I like kde and xfce. I dislike gnome because of my early development experience with gdk.