how can I change Ubuntu to have default settings (everything, apps, icon size, color, etc) without losing any other software or files??

Pantherina, 7 months ago

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.

Hildegarde, 7 months ago

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.

01adrianrdgz, 7 months ago

that worked :3 thank you very much, I will not touch anything now. (Except installing new apps)

bizdelnick, 7 months ago

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.