Comment Obligatory (Score 4, Insightful) 261
Obligatory XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/538/
Obligatory XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/538/
... Slashdot leaves CmdrTaco.
Same here. After almost 10 years with GNOME, I have migrated to XFCE for F15.
For former GNOME-2 user, XFCE provides almost the same experience: it is based on GTK, and their Terminal even is based on the same widget as gnome-terminal. I have kept my window-manager (sawfish), so the user interface is almost the same.
Unfortunately, in F15 the Galeon browser is no longer provided, so I had to migrate to Firefox, which is my biggest change in F15 from the UI standpoint. I will miss Galeon's smart bookmarks.
XFCE even supports the "desktop icons are minimized applications" mode (the default option is "desktop icons are application launchers") as the old window managers like twm or fvwm had.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.