Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better

Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by keypress on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:02AM (#17038906)

I run Xfce on Debian, I have Gnome 3 in reserve. And occasionally try it out. I quite like the notification area/panel under Gnome. Font clarity seems a little different (better). Workspaces are okay, plug-able drives are handled well, network manager is pretty good these days, as it now has a CLI alternative. But I don't like the application launcher. Not a fan of scrolling through loads of icons.

Nautilus has got increasingly shitty. So there's less Gnome now in my Xfce.

I tried Win 10 recently, it was horrible.

In conclusion they all have warts. But Xfce is okay in a Win95 kind of way. It could be better.

Simple UI seems to always elude distros/desktops.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by hawski on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:47AM (#17039286)

Xubuntu at least has the whisker menu system, which gives you search bar in menu. Without it one can remove system menu and replace it with Xfce app-finder launcher. Then it's best to change a setting to place windows near the mouse pointer.

Note: I'm currently not using Xfce at home, but I use some older version at work.

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