Ubuntu 11.10 experiences review in brief over past year

When Ubuntu 11.04 were released in previous year, I hadn't taken to the complaints about 11.04 and 11.10 unity interface in terms of conceived stylisation.  Here visual interface design conceived in providing more so prominent and understood visual navigation design interfaces relative to previous traditional interface structures.  However, minor annoyances still seem present, scroll bars, outside of default design settings found say in  Firefox browsers, seem more difficult in managing, while philosophy of visual interface minimalism seems more so, apparently the version of Firefox installed in Ubuntu, felt visually the element of the scroll bar shouldn't be taken away (even if facilitating in a focus/transient based manner), and I believe they are right here.   Likewise I had looked forward to as an alternative to windows desktop environment, being rewarded with the opportunity to take advantage of newer operating system releases alongside the advantages that any open source community might offer relatively so,  it seems this were true.  However, I may suggest, at times, the focus in release cycles concerning progress, in so far as software interoperability and software centre maintenance appear at odds with the adherence to reliability.  Several occasions found myself, un installing software that neither seemed to work in the ways that once suggested, and this could be something of a downside to the Ubuntu experience if having expectation that software should work in future release cycles.  This being said, this isn't to say that operability owing to significant progress were always true, but it could be something of problem outside operability conservation in applied changes to os design. 

Despite this, however, Ubuntu still maintains some appeal for me.  I hadn't been exactly the user, ever so dependent upon any specific base source of software, mostly at the moment development oriented, and it seems any software typically in the archives, that I hadn't noticed previously but suddenly noticed not exactly working, weren't exactly loss here, and one could offer, maybe it weren't the job of Ubuntu as a whole to maintain any number of software whose maintainers long since abandoned as a result of any number of reasons.  Hard for me to judge the level of open source software development at the moment, however.   Core programs that I like continue to generally work,  and the operating system has overall been reliable enough, and then mostly in terms of absence of functionality here, has been inspirational to development, one might wonder whether survival shows could be produced here...how to create the program you need in Ubuntu if it doesn't exactly exist...at least if Ubuntu could make their Quickly development series package even more hands on and friendly, it might not matter whether maintainers of old defunct software eventually disappear into the fray, someone might create something just as good if not better in a flash!