Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

[Owen Thomas]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 11:06, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 10:49, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 10:20, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I have just upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, and I find the Desktop
>>> functions quite differently to the way it used to.
>>>
>>> I can no longer press ctrl-space-c to close windows; I have to use the
>>> down arrow to select close.
>>>
>>> I can no longer alt-tab easily between applications; Pressing alt-tab
>>> for some reason merely maximises my current window. Alt-shift-tab brings up
>>> the open windows and I can select in there using arrow keys.
>>>
>>> Why?
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>> All of this is really frustrating. Wherever the advice to make changes
>> like these came from, it was dud advice.
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> No longer does it appear that the date and time can be displayed at the
> upper edge of the desktop. It now appears only to show the day of the week,
> the hour, and the minute.
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> This sucks because I refer to this information when I name files with the
> current date and time. This really sucks!
>

I want to get away from this desktop and perhaps move to 20.04. Is 20.04
even worse?
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