Frankly, does it matter? I was forced into ubuntu in that job, so whatever Canonical was shipping was effectively GNOME to me. Also i looked into dealing with

Frankly, does it matter? I was forced into ubuntu in that job, so whatever Canonical was shipping was effectively GNOME to me. Also i looked into dealing with that "flavour" of gnome and the settings availability was just poor. Even XFCE which is a way smaller project does have more and better settings. And let's not even pull KDE into the discussion, KDE has literally TONS of options.