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A someone that prefers Gnome2 and KDE... Gnome3 and Unity are both ewwww...

• pmontra 6y ago
  I'm using a dozen extensions to make Gnome 3 behave like Gnome 2 as much as I can. No animations, no menu on top, no top bar, task bar at the bottom, no dock, no activities, one virtual desktop per project. That was impossible with Unity.
  • nikodunk 6y ago
    Why don’t you use Gnome Classic out of curiosity?
    • pmontra 6y ago
      I did use Gnome Fallback (Flashback?) until Gnome Shell had all the extensikns I needed and got rid of some bugs. Gnome Fallback was almost abandonware by the time I switched. It started to develop new glitches as the world around it moved on. Is Gnome Classic the other option I have at login on Ubjntu 20.04? I gave it a try one year ago. Either it didn't work or wasn't the desktop I was looking for. I prefer my custom desktop. Of course nobody can develop one system that suits the tastes of every single person. The important thing to do is to leave enough freedom to make people customize their systems.
  • cglong 6y ago
    Have you tried MATE? I haven't, but I believe it's a modernized fork of GNOME 2.
    • pmontra 6y ago
      I never managed to install its desktop on Ubuntu. Anyway I'd have to customize it too. I never liked desktops with a top bar, since the very first Mac. I couldn't get rid of it on Unity so I never used Unity (same for Macs.)