I am now completely off the above topic because I just got this in my email:
Canonical shook the Linux world yesterday when it announced that the next version of Ubuntu -- "Natty Narwhal," or version 11.04 -- will no longer use the GNOME interface by default. Instead, Natty will feature Unity, the multitouch and 3D-enabled interface that made its debut earlier this month in the distribution's netbook edition of Maverick Meerkat, or Ubuntu 10.10.
I just started using Unity on my notebook. It is quite nice and quite a bit less clunky than default Gnome but... WOW!