I recently became interested in using operating systems or software in the most vanilla way possible!! Without changing anything, just getting new files and other stuff. I’ve changed a lot of things from Ubuntu (for example uninstalling Rhythmbox and getting VLC) and I honestly want all the Ubuntu GNOME vanilla software back, even wallpapers and etc, how can I do that?? Please, thank you!! >u<
Nearly all settings are stored in .config in your home directory. It’s a hidden directory so you may need to find that option in your file browser.
Rename .config to something else, .config_old for example, then reboot. The system will notice the lack of config files and generate new default ones.
Some settings are stored elsewhere like .local/share but this should reset most of the settings while still allowing you to restore the old configurations if needed.
that worked :3 thank you very much, I will not touch anything now. (Except installing new apps)
Why would you want to rely 100% on the taste of other people?
If you like GNOME, you may try Fedora Silverblue which has vanilla GNOME and little apps, all others are installed as Flatpaks.
But relying on preinstalled snaps for whatever reason doesnt make much sense. Default Desktop settings are a different thing, and I am happy you found the solution.
mv ~/.config{,.bk}Better do this from console, when graphical session is not started. But this will only drop your user settings, not system-wide.
