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Last time I tried Fedora after using Ubuntu, the minimize/maximize button was missing on windows.

Turns out gnome team decided to remove it and Fedora does not restore the setting while Ubuntu does.

This might seem childish but the fact that I had to make a change to the interface as a first step just after installation completely turned me off from the distribution.

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I've repeatedly stumbled over these kinds of decisions by the gnome team. As a teenager I actually donated to the gnome foundation and I was very proud to receive some stickers via mail, but over the past years I realized that somehow their incentives are not aligned with mine.

Who in their right mind would remove those buttons? It can only be people who don't actually work with the system but think about further "improvements" all day. Very frustrating.

Install the Gnome Tweak Tool and you can make lots of preference tweaks like that. I'd actually forgotten that they did that because I added them back too.

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