Chris2Kari took the words right out of my mouth. Unity is a piece of crapola just as Windows 8 "Metro". Metro, actually, from the PNGs I have seen is actually more polished (I tried to install all 3 Metro previews into a VirtualBox Vm on my NEW Win. 7 Desktop and had no luck - each install attempt crashed with no indication why). I have tried Unity from 11.04 to 12.10. Since I am not a gamer, facebooker, etc. - I try to do productive work plus exchange e-mails, I like to go right to Desktop mode and have everything the way I want it (and the way it worked through Ubuntu 10.10. - I use panels all the time plus folders on the Gnome 2 desktop). I have found ZorinOS, Mint with MATE and SolusOS much better solutions than the frustration of using a mouse on a touch screen implementation.