[joe_the_user]

Sure, but the thing with Gnome 3 is that Gnome made the decision that they would piggy-big a "new, modern interface" onto their overall graphic environment (Gnome 1 and Gnome 2 used the paradigm more or less popularized by Windows 95).

Sure, Microsoft and Apple feel like they have to shove a new load of, uh, cr-p onto us on a regular basis and have enough resources to maybe make that work. But Gnome just didn't have the same marketing positioning.

I'm all for modernizing interfaces. But it seems like either Gnome choosing one or Ubuntu choose one and then these being pushed on us isn't really a good way (or an effective way). Because "modern" mean "opinionated" and open source probably won't easily adopt opinionated approach.