Koffie

I did use Ubuntu MATE for a while. Quite happy with it but finally couldn’t resist the ckall of KDE

The option is there, the news is that GNOME changed the default value.

Are you sure about nomodeset still nerfing the GPU once in a desktop session? I remember having to use nomodeset on my own PC to get text displayed at boot. However once booted and inside the graphical desktop Ubuntu would use the proprietary NVIDIA driver just fine. That was a few years back though (around 2010)

From time to time I have to be reminded that this exists.

It can be re-enabled with the following command (source is the Merge Request linked in the article):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

Can imagine some distros will override the GNOME default here.