Funny, I'm thinking the opposite about Gnome. That, much thanks to Canonical, it is finally getting much needed optimizations for better performance. I'd agree

Funny, I'm thinking the opposite about Gnome. That, much thanks to Canonical, it is finally getting much needed optimizations for better performance. I'd agree more with you 3-4 years ago than today. I'm also happy they finally stopped holding back Nautilus just because of the desktop icons... They should have just used a Gnome extension like now for that all along. All in all, I'm pretty happy with the performance of Ubuntu 19.04 and have enjoyed working with it since the beta. With the OpenWeather and Dash to Dock extensions, I find myself pretty much set with a nice looking desktop.