10+ years full time Ubuntu user here, I have to say that although I am happy for the fact that Unity is gone, it is too late as I have moved to xfce4. The deci

10+ years full time Ubuntu user here, I have to say that although I am happy for the fact that Unity is gone, it is too late as I have moved to xfce4. The decision to move to Unity was bad, users choose Linux desktop because they want something simple, something more under their control. The whole unity desktop experience together with that everything is searchable promise is just not the right selling point for that audience. Now many many years in xfce4, that is the exact desktop environment I want. no over engineering rubbish, no forced features, no fancy UI pretending to be cool/smart, just the essential stuff that actually work. If I am going to spend most of time in terminals + chrome, why forcing me to have a fat desktop environment? gnome seems to be fine, used it for many many years before the Unity joke/xfce4, but it is still too fat and it is too late.