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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by xab9 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:53AM (#17038047)
Except when they break horribly. Some of them modifies gsettings directly, so even if you remove it, you still have to clean them up manually.
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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by levesque on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:58AM (#17038071)
Exactly. I had setup some dock extensions before Ubuntu went back to gnome and I'm stuck with it now, can't seem to be able to switch back. Deactivating / uninstalling said extension didn't work. I uninstalled it years after installing so probably the settings changed name or something.
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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by chupasaurus on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:22AM (#17038180)
It's up to developer/maintainer to provide rollback. My experience with Gnome 3 isn't deep because I've switched to KDE after 2 months of tinkering and feel happy ever since.
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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by xab9 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:37AM (#17039829)
KDE is kinda okay now, but I just can't forget the nuclear clusterfuck called kde 4 back in the day.

I kinda tolerate gnome 3 (despite its marvellously obvious flaws) for now and if I find it way too annoying, I'll rip it out and use fluxbox or smg similarly low level wm.

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