Comment by mixmastamyk

Arrogance in the GNOME desktop community.

Unfortunately us folks who grew up on sane, usability tested interfaces are not in charge anymore. A disease that has spread across all OSs. Recommend Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in order of least traditional to most traditional window controls.

Also there is a dconf setting to configure titlebar buttons for GTK/gnome decedents. KDE has a GUI.