3 years ago today, I posted this question to Ask HN, as I was boarding a flight from Heathrow to Houston. At the time, I was the VP of Product at Canonical, thinking about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and what people really wanted in the next generation of Ubuntu. What followed was one of the most heavily commented threads on HackerNews, ever. Over the next week, I meticulously reviewed the comments and requests and published a blog post that grouped the requests into patterns.
I'm no longer with Canonical, though I still use Ubuntu desktop and server on a daily basis, and contribute occasionally as an Ubuntu Core Developer. It's pretty cool to look back at how much of that feedback found it's way into 18.04 LTS and now into 20.04 LTS!
On a related note, dear product managers...make sure you give your users a voice into the future of your products! We learned a lot from this experience. Thank you HackerNews ;-)
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