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How to install Vanilla Gnome Desktop on Ubuntu

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Karim Buzdar
Oct 1, 2019

In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, there is a customized version of the Gnome desktop. Ubuntu has done some changes on its 18.04 release to make it look like Unity desktop. However, some users might not like these changes. For them, there is a simple and minimized Gnome desktop environment also known as Vanilla desktop that they configure it in the way they want.

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Karim Buzdar

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