Ubuntu is returning to Gnome for 18.04 LTS. Yes!

Well, this sounds like good news to me. Going back to a simple but working environment. Windows has been going away from this lately. Too many things running in the background that you have to turn off for example.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/