First of all, the UI is not the same when in phone mode and desktop mode. In desktop mode it runs traditional Unity and in mobile mode it runs Ubuntu Touch, a g

First of all, the UI is not the same when in phone mode and desktop mode. In desktop mode it runs traditional Unity and in mobile mode it runs Ubuntu Touch, a gesture based UI that only looks similar to Unity. I spent some time on a BlackBerry 10, and I loved it. Gesture based UIs are the future for smartphones. I'm willing to cut Ubuntu some slack on Unity and Mir. Despite all the haters, the latest Unity is actually turning out to be a decent UI. For those of us on 16:9 monitors, a vertical taskbar was the right choice. Vertical taskbars were broken for over 10 years GNOME[1], so I can understand Shuttleworths frustration. I also love the search bar lense UI. The mistake they made was shipping Unity half-baked. Yes, it can get unresponsive on low-end hardware. But much of this comes from poor 3D driver support under Linux, and bloated, slow, and outdated X[2] and compiz. The sooner those two die, the sooner we can have a responsive modern 3D accelerated compositing window managers under Linux. [1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86382 [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44