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Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and MATE Editions Released
linuxscreenshot writes The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.1 'Rebecca' MATE. Linux Mint 17.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Linux Mint 17.1 MATE edition comes with two window managers installed and configured by default: Marco (MATE's very own window manager, simple, fast and very stable); Compiz (an advanced compositing window manager which can do wonders if your hardware supports it). Among the various window managers available for Linux, Compiz is certainly the most impressive when it comes to desktop effects. Screenshots can be found here.
If you're running Mint 17 now, the release notes say to wait a few more days until they release an updated upgrade manager.
You were more forgiving than I was. Gnome3 was pretty much the Poster Child for the Grinch paradigm of software design that's become so prevalent these days. As in, "Here's our new, wonderful product. Isn't it wonderful? Don't you just love it? What do you mean it doesn't do something essential that you've been able to do for years and you don't like it? You ingrate! You're GOING to like our new product! We're not going to fix it just because you and 100,000 whiny little dweebs claim to need those missing functions!"
So I switched to Cinnamon and have been perfectly happy ever since. I've even kept some of the Gnome3-like options turned on. But I have all those little bits of clutter that keep me attuned to systems operation that Gnome 3 took away from me.