The only person I know that uses gnome3 and claims to sort of like it (mind, he still complains about it all the time) reminds me of myself four or five years ago when I was trying to convince myself that I still liked KDE, I liked where 4.x was going, and was full of all sorts of excuses for it. And don't think I am exaggerating the extent of my own distortion; I was saying these things about KDE 4.0.
So every time somebody responds to criticism of what GNOME has become with "Well it has all been going swimmingly for me. The few wrinkles don't bother me!", I can't help but see myself, lying to myself.
While I haven't tried KDE in years, I'm sure the experience has dramatically improved and it is now a viable DE choice. Hopefully, in four or five years GNOME will be the same way. But really, there can be no defending of the current state of GNOME, nor the state of the early 4.x releases.
So every time somebody responds to criticism of what GNOME has become with "Well it has all been going swimmingly for me. The few wrinkles don't bother me!", I can't help but see myself, lying to myself.
While I haven't tried KDE in years, I'm sure the experience has dramatically improved and it is now a viable DE choice. Hopefully, in four or five years GNOME will be the same way. But really, there can be no defending of the current state of GNOME, nor the state of the early 4.x releases.