On Ubuntu, it's actually ironic for the author to say that everybody started raising their eyebrows when Ubuntu shipped with its own interface, considering that

On Ubuntu, it's actually ironic for the author to say that everybody started raising their eyebrows when Ubuntu shipped with its own interface, considering that in open-source everybody does whatever the fuck they want in general and as results you have at least Xfce, KDE and Gnome. Wasn't that the whole freaking point of open-source in the first place? And who's raising eye-brows exactly? People also raised eyebrows when Android shipped. Android is a Linux operating system too, with a completely different interface. Android doesn't even have XWindows on it. And in the meantime, Android is the number one operating system for smartphones, while all other attempts at an open-source operating systems for mobiles have failed. I also like Unity. It needs improvements, sure. But considering that there was no other significant progress in the last 7 years at least, only regressions like KDE 4, I actually like that Canonical has the cojones to push interface changes. If anything, I don't think Canonical is bold enough, but unfortunately they don't have the resources for it. Btw, Ubuntu 12.10 has the only graphical installer that's (1) intuitive and (2) offers to do full-disk encryption for you. You could do the same with Debian since years ago, but it wasn't for human beings.