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See, thats the thing ... as i wrote, i really like Unity, for various reasons, but especially because i've got the most available screen estate for my applications as i run most stuff maximized and since the application menus are merged into the top bar, i actually win about 3% available screen estate.
As i said, the only thing that really bugs me is that the sidebar unintentionally pops up all the time and blocks me from clicking on icons to the far left (like the back button of firefox, all the open/close folder icons in eclipse/
I would be happy forever (in that regard) if there was something like a hidden setting, command line switch, environment variable to be exported or whatever, just so i can move this annoyance to the bottom of the screen.
As for the mentioned alternatives, XFCE is just the only viable alternative for me, as i never liked Gnome at all and KDE is in my opinion the worst of them all (and yes i've tried them all, i even most of them installed right now just so i could see whether things have changed for the better or worse). However, I really prefer Unity to all of them, if just that launcher bar wouldn't interfere so much with me working. It sits at the wrong position.
I mean i totally understand the urge to compete with other companies, platforms, designs and architectures and to provide the best possible user experience, but seriously, *all of them* competitors grant me that little freedom - to move the tool- and launchbars to where I as a user/customer want them to be.
Also, switching back/reinstalling to a 32bit OS just so i can use a hacked sidebar instead? You can't be serious.
And never hiding the sidebar is obviously also not a alternative. I (like millions of other people) am using a notebook and you probably know that you never can have enough screen estate (and as i already said, i get more of that with unity than with any other desktop).