You may want to look into gnome classic, it comes default with gnome.

It’s not fancy or even popular, but it was made specifically for people like you.

It’s way worse.

With bsd you could at least take the code you got and make your own fork, with these shared source licenses you get nothing.

It would depend on whether you think elop was a Microsoft mole al along 😉.

By the time of the Microsoft acquisition, focus had already shifted to Windows phones.