Why is GNOME like GNOME? https://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html https://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html I recommend to read this! You will understand a lot

Why is GNOME like GNOME? https://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html https://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html I recommend to read this! You will understand a lot about GNOME. They learned a lesson to keep things simple for the user. But the reason for five clocks is probably, that neither provides the important preferences for a lot users. Ubuntu Please don't think that Ubuntu is using GNOME. It is a massively patched and themed version of GNOME, mixing package versions of current and older versions. And more important, for many years Ubuntu used Unity as UI and and own Login-Manager. Canonical is always doing something alone outside of community. The good news * Canonical helps GNOME since some years again and it has an positive effect, lots of performance improvements. * GNOME is keyboard centric! I select applications windows by typing the application name. Why search if GNOME can find it? * Luckliy GNOME removed the entire failed desktop metaphor from Microsoft Windows (arranging and searching icons you never see and never use because a windows is in front of it). * And the SystemTray (Microsoft tries to hide it since Windows XP). Either your a silent daemon or an application with an CLI, TUI or GUI. * GNOME is incredible friendly to new users which doesn't expect things already in a specific way. * They learned a lot and re-added features. Like the awesome file type-and-find in Nautilus. The bad news GNOME tends to remove features and options before an appropriate replacement is ready. The often assume what users need based on their personal usage, which is not identical. Known examples are the removal of transparency from the terminal (patches available!) or the hidden setting to avoid suspend on LID-CLOSE. As noted already above, it looks like they learned somewhat and keep improving :)