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I'm not sure what you mean by that. The GUI is the desktop environment (or window manager, if you are using something like Fluxbox). According, it looks as if you are asking, "Can I move the desktop the to the desktop?" which I am certain is not what you intended to ask.
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You can install a different desktop environment or window manager on Ubuntu as you can with any other Linux distribution. Linux doesn't care what graphical environment you have installed, or even if you have any installed at all.
But it's recommended that you just download a different version of Ubuntu instead, and that would be the easiest solution. Since Ubuntu has a different distribution for each of the major desktop environments, so for example, you would download Kubuntu if you wanted Ubuntu with the KDE desktop environment - which is just Ubuntu with KDE instead of the GNOME desktop environment.
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