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GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award
msevior writes "Although Linus Torvalds and some Slashdot commentators may disagree, GNOME 3 has many admirers. GNOME 3 was awarded the Linux Journal Readers' Choice award for 2011." Though I'm one of the complainers, I hope to be converted with the help of Gnome Shell extensions.
I am tempted to mod you troll, but I'll post instead. I can not at all share your bad experience with the latest GNOME. I use GNOME 3 and Ubuntu 11.10 on my work laptop, and it works like a dream. GTK, as done by people who know how to write it, is still superior to Qt, and the end product is much more stable. Okay, it does not necessarily have the latest and sleekest bells and whistles – such as GPU accelerated annoying desktop effects or an integrated browser. Instead, it is a solid and fast codebase with practical (as opposed to superfluous) UI decisions, and the best Mozilla Firefox interoperation.
GNOME 3 is very well-suited for people who use their computer to do work or browse the Internet – that is to say – a great majority of the userbase. If you want the latest eye-candy and less stability, go KDE. If you want to pretend that you have a Mac and don't care at all about stability, go Unity. Or maybe something else, if you want multimedia integration on desktop etc. But your GNOME-bashing is very hard to comprehend, as I have found it very usable on modern hardware. And yes, it is still the default window manager in most distros for a good reason.
It almost begs the question: are you sure you are not mistaking GNOME 3 to the Ubuntu's new and unstable Unity? It would fit the description better – UI does not work conceptually, and overall stability is something like alpha-level.
Oh and by the way, at home I still use WindowMaker. Kicks ass.