In a recent interview,
Mark Shuttleworth admits that replacing the traditional desktop
environment of the Ubuntu operating system with the controversial Unity
user interface was a mistake a few years ago, when Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty
Narwhal) was introduced to users worldwide.
Back then, and many years later, lots of Ubuntu
users were angry at Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical for changing their
beloved desktop environment without justification. The Ubuntu desktop
was based on GNOME 2 prior to the Ubuntu 11.04 release. Today, Unity is
embraced and adored by more and more users, especially because of the
convergence between desktop and mobile.
“The mistake that I made there, and other people
should learn from it, was that it was absolutely clear to me that lining
all of those things up was worth doing. The problem was, if you were an
Ubuntu desktop guy, suddenly your desktop changed,” says Mark
Shuttleworth in the interview. "Now when I think about it’s like ‘duh,’
change without justification for the change is going to piss people off.
Now when people see this they’re like ‘holy [expletive] that’s
wonderful,’ but that’s because they can see it.”
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