The "close button on the left" crowd, for instance, is thrilled.

Haha, cheap shot, but isn't a good thing that Unix has such a diverse community now? Many years ago, after OSX had been out for a while, even the Mac greybeards started poking at the terminal, isn't that cool? Or does the pool of new users somehow drain from the entire pool?

That's what they get for sharing their bed with the Gnome interface nazis[1].

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00...