Ubuntu 17.10 Begins Transition To GNOME Shell Desktop By Default

[andre30correia]

years making a great DE and now they back to this garbage unusable thing! I hope they at least put extensions and improves extensions or bye bye ubuntu

[leipero]

No! Compiz can't die.

You can't beat perfected desktop consistency that Unity7 gives, global menu, dash HUD, unified notification/OSD, audioplayer/IM integration. There's bunch of patches applied to many packages to give consistent look/behavior among apps, it will suck to see this go away once gnome3 arrives.

If Compiz is your only problem, you can use gnome-session-flashback, it have default compiz and metacity sessions, it is simple DE, but it have same applications as Unity7 had. Or any other DE others already suggested. Compiz is fine, but for classic animations clutter is much better (as it is in mutter and all mutter based WM's = gala, deepin-wm, muffin etc.).

I've personally used gnome-session-flashback with gala wm for quite a while before going to Gnome-Shell.

[Anvil]

What's dash to dock? I haven't seen that in my xfce.

read here https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/

[Anvil]

No! Compiz can't die.

You can't beat perfected desktop consistency that Unity7 gives, global menu, dash HUD, unified notification/OSD, audioplayer/IM integration. There's bunch of patches applied to many packages to give consistent look/behavior among apps, it will suck to see this go away once gnome3 arrives.

if you still want compiz, use Gnome-Mate

[Hibbelharry]

I hope all these Ubuntu patches to Gnome vanish. They've made Gnome on Ubuntu unstable for years.

[mike44]

Unity is still my choice, however I would want to move the launcher behind windows and to the right side.

[suberimakuri]

What's dash to dock? I haven't seen that in my xfce.

[Mystro256]

Relax. That's only a team Ubuntu patch or GNOME extension away. Unity was nothing more than Ubuntu tweaked GNOME anyways. As team Ubuntu said they are going to offer "
as close as possible" vanilla GNOME. But there is some wiggle room is "as close"

Besides...if the standard Linux desktop worldwide is not to your taste you have a plethora of hobbyist DE's to choose. That's what makes Linux and Open Source great.

I feel like they should have a "Dash to Dock" like extension as default, to at least make it not too irking to those coming over from Unity.

Honestly, if I could have only one extension, it would be dash to dock.

[xiaochocobo]

Sigh, I actually was starting to enjoy Unity ...

[SilverMachine]

At Canonical they think packages they compiled (from source others wrote) are their property. This alone should make ppl boycot Ubuntu.