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[viraptor]

If the UI is all you had problems with, then why switch the whole distribution instead of installing the same gnome shell?

Even softpedia provides a way to do it: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-GNOME-3-on-Ubu...

[piccadilly → viraptor]

You wouldn't necessarily know this until you had done the described change, but Ubuntu's packaging of Gnome Shell is in various small but annoying ways not as polished and together as Fedora's.

That might partly be because Ubuntu has thrown its effort into its default Unity, while Fedora has put effort into its default Gnome Shell.

[elehack → viraptor]

I was growing increasingly dissatisfied with other aspects of Ubuntu as well. Unity was just the last straw.