I think that Ubuntu switching from the Unity Desktop to the Gnome Desktop in 17.10 is a real set back to its quality as a desktop and especially laptop OS and i

I think that Ubuntu switching from the Unity Desktop to the Gnome Desktop in 17.10 is a real set back to its quality as a desktop and especially laptop OS and it will probably take until 20.04 at a minimum to really resolve this. I won't argue about whether the change was right or wrong. What I will argue is that is was a poor choice to make the change so close to a new LTS release and they should have made the change over the first release after an LTS instead of last release before the LTS.