Comment by lxe

"Little known?" Compiz was the hotness of the century about a decade ago. Fire effects on minimizing windows and the famous "cube" to switch desktops. Compiz definitely propelled Ubuntu and desktop Linux in general to where it is now.

Check out this Google Trends chart to get the picture of where it was in 2007: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=C...