Ubuntu 12.10 ( Read Canonical ) forced me to migrate to XFCE from Unity / GNOME

I have been a GNOME fan since I started using Ubuntu in 2007. I actually liked the switch from 1.x to 2.x, . But with the GNOME3 development, I was struggling to use GNOME. It forced me to use GNOME fall back session as my graphic card did not play well with OpenGL and GNOME3 Shell. I compromised with GNOME fallback mode and infact happy with it. 

My experience went far worst with the introduction of Unity by canonical in their distribution. It was a pain to use on my low end notebook as the graphic card did not like it. Though I was ok with it till ubutnu 11.10 . But it forced me to find some alternative which works well on my notebook. I stared using Lbuntu but I did not like it either. Day to day computing was a pain. I unistalled unity and started using GNOME shell in fall back mode i.e GNOME classic mode.

But hold on , GNOME 3.8 will officially remove the fallback mode. This forced me again to search for alternative. Now I thought I will give a shot for XFCE ( read xbuntu ).

Once I started using xbuntu , my old notebook became new again. It performed so well. I played with XFCE desktop . It is lightweight , sleek , fast and less resource demanding.

I am now switching to XFCE. My notebook does not work well with OpenGL, and thus don't work well with Gnome shell. I go to XFCE. Which is much closer to the original Gnome experience, and very productivity oriented..

In Gnome 2, it was a lot about making things more usable as they are, a bit cleaner and more efficient. With Gnome 3, it seems to be about experimenting with new stuff. Which is why it keeps on breaking APIs all the time. For example themeing GTK 3 is constantly broken; most of the themes available just don't work. Similar Gnome Shell extensions - most of them work with exactly one version of Gnome Shell

Well I am not blind haters of GNOME shell . But I feel it is broken now. The UI shift may the future of personal computing because the way the personal computing advancing. In near future , we may not use traditional keyborad and mouse. PC will be a touch only device. I think in those time, GNOME3 will be more appropriate. But for now , for my notebook XFCE is the choice. Good luck to GNOME3 ....