It's pretty awful, but I guess you can turn it off right? Or there are other distros.

AutoCAD has worked that way since the 1980s.

This is complete gimmick. Do Ubuntu really think that this is some how a better idea than a carefully selected set of keyboard shortcuts? Who would ever type Bookmark instead of Ctrl-B or just a mouseclick?

Might as well dump this mouse thing, and those pesky windows, icons, menus and pointers and go back to the command line, typing in obscure strings, or no, wait, how about a phone-friendly hex keypad?

So we should type a few characters,then hit tab.
Maybe we should have a black bos with white text, oh wait that's the CLI!
Shame that others are followinfg MS in removing features and making the GUI less intuitive.
The menu system is more discoverable and easily browseable, whereas the ribbon and similar replacements are just clumsy to use.
Typing is fine if you have any idea what the programmer called the application.

That looks awesome!

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