I have read more comments and other views and have come to the conclusion that 
Ubuntu may not be for me.
On the plus side the installation experience was fantastic, the initial 
impression from the way it looked was good.
On the minus side an update of the system froze the GUI and required a hard 
power cycle, and it seems that the default desktop GUI is too 
functionality-stripped to suit my taste. Getting rid of Unity didn't improve 
things much as the old style menus looked tired and developmentally orphaned. 
Unity would be nice if it wasn't so dumbed down (presumably for touch screen 
usage) and unconfigurable. Unfortunately Windows 7 (and even Vista) are more 
appealing and feel less straight-jacket like. I know I can hack Linux to 
anything, but most users can't -and the maintenance trouble of a totally 
personalised system is not something I wish to handle. I never liked the space 
wasting "global menu bar" (macintosh style) feature, and can't seem to get rid 
of it at all nowdays in Ubuntu. Window buttons on the left is a mac thing, and 
seems to screw up most existing themes. Weren't they always on the right on 
Linux systems? I use a Mac (mini) and an iPhone, and can just say that the Mac 
GUI is nice, but cannot be half-implemented. You either have it fully 
implemented, or it's no good. And not even Apple tries to make the touch screen 
interface the same as the real computer version. Linux has come a long way 
since the early days, but dumbing down the GUI universally cannot be the way 
forward, surely?

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Title:
  please include status messages/tooltips

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