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After I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04, several desktop managers started to appear in my login screen:

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Which one should I use normally?

My questions:

  • Which of these are going to be deprecated?
  • How do I eliminate the unneeded ones safely?
FedKad
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    Why not try them, to see which one you like? There's even many more to try, such as KDE and xfce. – vidarlo Apr 22 '19 at 16:19
  • My question was a theoretical one. I know that each one has its pros and cons and these are subjective things. However, I wanted to learn which one is pushed by Canonical and which ones are going to be killed by Canonical in the future. – FedKad Apr 22 '19 at 17:17
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    I'd focus on using the one you like, and not worry about them getting killed off. – vidarlo Apr 22 '19 at 17:20

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As of April 2019, there is no plan to deprecate any of them.

The most likely to survive over the long term is GNOME (plain GNOME).

  • GNOME Classic is merely a the Gnome desktop without the Ubuntu modifications. Some folks prefer this experience.
  • GNOME on XORG is merely a fallback option for folks who don't have complete Wayland compatibility yet.
  • Ubuntu is the popular, community-maintained Unity desktop built on top of Gnome. Some folks prefer this experience.
  • Ubuntu on Wayland is for folks who have complete Wayland compatibility.
user535733
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  • OK. I will try to stick to the first option (plain GNOME). Is there any reason to keep or not to keep the others? And, how do I remove them? – FedKad Apr 23 '19 at 09:27
  • The first option (plain GNOME) removes the window title from some applications (namely Firefox and Thunderbird) which makes impossible to move these applications to other workspaces (by right clicking on the title bar and selecting Move to Workspace ...) – FedKad Apr 23 '19 at 16:08
  • The GNOME session has also the drag-and-drop problem described in: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1136203/drag-and-drop-functionality-no-longer-working-after-upgrade-to-19-04 – FedKad May 26 '19 at 10:26
  • After upgrading to 19.10, now I have only three options: GNOME on Xorg, GNOME Classic, and Ubuntu. GNOME on Xorg works just OK, and does not have any of the problems mentioned in this post. – FedKad Oct 25 '19 at 14:19