I'm currently visiting a foreign university, where I'm using an Ubuntu system. The Desktop has something in the upper-left corner called Activities. I have to click it or mouse through it to do most little tasks involving starting or switching between applications. I find it disagreeable because what takes a single click in most Desktops requires three or more clicks with Activities, and I have to go through menus and animations of sliding and swirling windows in order to find what I'm looking for, which I find disorienting. Workspaces get auto-deleted if they go for a moment without any windows in them, etc. I've been struggling with it for two weeks now, and I no longer believe that I'll get used to it.
I understand that Linux is very good for customization and configurability. How can I set up a simpler, more-efficient Desktop? I don't know their names, but I've used other Desktops on Linux that do nice things like put all running applications on a "task bar" so you can reach them in a single click, all workspaces stable and accessible on the task bar, handy gadgets that you can add to the task bar to display stuff like CPU and network usage, etc. I think this used to be called GNOME, but the thing with Activities also appears to be called GNOME.
Here is the contents of /proc/version:
Linux version 3.13.0-59-generic (buildd@lgw01-43) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #98-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:05:26 UTC 2015
I don't have root access. 
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