ok first of all, happy holidays or christmas to everyone!! happy debian day! but anyway i just wanted to ask something, why does ubuntu use its own version of gnome?? (taskbar in desktop, material colors, etc) i know that even distros like pop os! or fedora use vanilla gnome so why would canonical change the settings of gnome?? i think ubuntus gnome is cute but vanilla is amazing and well at least they give you the freedom of changing desktop environment but still, i dont know why canonical would do that!!
Pop doesn’t use stock Gnome, there’s a lot of modifications to it. They’re also working on their own DE for future releases, called Cosmic.
Linux is designed to give you freedom to change things to your liking, and Canonical and many other distro teams obviously feel they can improve Gnome.
I spent a year using Ubuntu, but it’s only when I moved to Fedora that I discovered that switching workspaces and using touchpad gestures was important in the experience.
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