Try cinnamon - it's not perfect, but it is workable and they are working on it.

Yes! What he said - great post Sir. Of course I'm also one of those old farts. Why did we need more than 680k?

I have a laptop 1680x1050 with an external monitor 1900x1200. I use multple desktops with virtual machines and multiple applications and instances of application. Gnome3 initially borked this so badly I had to find a different DE to use. At this point I use Cinnamon (on Fedora 16) and it is workable although not quite what I want. I don't care if Gnome3 now has extensions to do what I want - I sincerely doubt it given the attitudes, history, and documented direction. I've gone through the hassle of investigating several different systems and now have one that works - why would I change back when I believe the Cinnamon developers are working towards something I can live with.

  I couldn't stick with Gnome 2 as Gnome3 poisoned the namespace. If you think Gnome3 (actually I think the big culprit here is really GnomeShell) is the bees knees fine, but try to understand that I and many others WASTED days of our lives trying to recover a working system from the bomb that the initial Gnome3 upgrade delivered. And then tried to justify with the 'we're making your life better, trust us, you ignorant luddite amish old farts'.

No. It was the unregulated gambling called CDS and derivatives that enabled a few bad loans to melt the global economy. It didn't help that the consumers were up to their eyeballs in debt due to the huge proportion of gains going to a miniscule few rather than being spread around a little. That there this was legal is a direct function of the intense lobbying efforts of the banksters.

The truth hurts.

Can't stand the hate, get out of the kitchen.

ROTFL. Thanks, I really needed that.

I have to eat. Clothing appropriate to the climate is always nice, as is protection from inclement weather. You say you 'own' this land, these means of production? How? Since when? Since we've decided to 'close' the frontiers, there is no choice - we are all a part of the system and must either play by the rules or make new ones - making new ones is generally reserved for those in power. Read John Brunner's 'Total Eclipse'.

Amen

No, I had a working well tuned workflow/space arrangement using Gnome2 that Gnome3 completely bolloxed. Aside from the underwhelming tablet influence it has an almost complete lack of understanding of multiple monitors and the ways that they are potentially used in the real world with say Gnome2. What G3 could be if it survives to some sort of working maturity I don't know. I've switched to XFCE - not a perfect replacement - but relatively stable and working. And damn the Gnome 3 developers and their holier than thou attitude - you're fired!

Imagine how many fewer the red/blues would get if "None of the above" were a choice.