[masfoobar]

I don't have as much hatred towards Gnome 3 like everyone else does.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not defending it. I was a little heart broken as I really liked Gnome 2. However, I tried to be optimistic with their plans overall.

(I think the early days on Gnome 3 featured something call Gnome Legacy to keep that Gnome 2-ish feel. I likely stayed on that for a while)

I still use Gnome 3 today... but Xfce would certainly be my second choice.

[avhception]

I don't have "hatred" towards Gnome3. I use it for friends and families desktops, they seem to like it. I have also rolled out about ~20 Gnome3-based desktops for my employer.

That said, there are definitely areas were Gnome could be improved. Some of them are understandable and probably stem from a lack funding / devs. Others less so, like removing the options to scale / stretch / center the wallpaper w/o installing "Gnome tweaks".

[masfoobar]

Yeah - I find it a little frustrating that the first thing to do after installing Gnome3 is to install Tweaks.