If there’s two things Ubuntu has always been, it’s brown and orange. This has a striking resemblance to the not-so good looking nature of, say, a shag living room carpet circa the 1970s. You can’t convince me that a brown interface with bright orange icons looks good. Not a chance. Ubuntu has been like that for quite some time. While it’s...

The GUI which is the fastest of them all is the one which is an absolute no-frills environment. "No-frills" defined:No wallpaper No animations Solid-colored application window borders No color gradients in title bars No anti-aliased fonts (i.e. font smoothing) No application window shadows No transparency/translucence Squared-off corners of...