See I don&#x27;t even know or remember what Compiz is anymore. My mom doesn&#x27;t know what Compiz is. I guess that&#x27;s when Ubuntu switched (12-14 or so release?) to the new start launcher and &quot;search apps by typing their name&quot;, and everyone hated that? Yeah I remember being annoyed at that for a while, but then got used to it and now like it more. I don&#x27;t even remember what old desktop looked like.<p>But I also noticed at the same time, my hardware on the laptop worked and the UI was smoother and more consistent. So saw enough improvements with each release to keep me happy with it.<p>Maybe at some point I stopped being a Linux distro hobbyist who was interested in what individual packages were called, and what kernel version each ran. I used to love that stuff. I started with Mandrake Linux, used Redhat, Gentoo for a while. But then stopped being interested in that became sort of an ignorant user that just wants his dev environment, (compilers), language packages, wifi, trackpad to work etc.