[njpatel]

I was responsible for writing a lot of the Unity shell for Ubuntu with my team, taking it from Ubuntu Netbook Remix -> Unity (Mutter) -> Unity (Compiz).

During that period I feel like my team and I wrote a lot of important code, but the fact that Unity survived for so long and was used by so many people makes it stand out.

I'd say a close second was Avant Window Navigator (AWN - a Linux dock), because it got me enough attention to be offered a job working on Open Source full time!

[veddox]

Thank you for Unity! I was really sad when Canonical dropped it - it's taken a lot of hate over the years, but I have yet to find a desktop manager I like better... (And I'm still using it.)