Then I guess it runs Unity and when it comes to Unity I'll personally agree with some of the criticism: Ubuntu Unity was always too opinionated and lacked the

Then I guess it runs Unity and when it comes to Unity I'll personally agree with some of the criticism: Ubuntu Unity was always too opinionated and lacked the necessary UX testing IMO. (Yep, they seemed to have tested it, but not on enough power users; some power users (a lot of them around here it seems) love Unity. Others like me find it a producrivity disaster, probably for some of the same reasons as you found. That said, a lot of the rest seems like a mix of misunderstandings and broken config either in the host or in the VM.