We were astonished by the response we received on our Google + page. The overwhelming response in favour of Gnome 3 Shell was incredible. You can read it yourself, here are some comments that we liked.
Brett Legree - I like GNOME Shell for various reasons - it works well with keyboard and mouse, it works on screens of all sizes, it looks good, it is fast (on my hardware), and - this is important to me - it is mainstream, meaning it is supported by a large company - Red Hat, via Fedora.
Mark Lilley - I use Gnome 3 and love it. I use LMDE and upgraded to Gnome 3 early. I think it needs to grow and develop more much as KDE 4 did but its still a good DE in its current state.
Christopher Bowley - I use it, and no matter how "slow" it is on my NetBook, every time I switch to something lighter, I'm back to Shell within a couple days. Just the ease of use, tap the corner, click on window I want, or tap corner, click on app name. It's leaps and bounds easier than clunky menus from the 80s.
Reinout van Schouwen - I think Gnome 3.4 is already way more ready for "mass consumption" then 2.4 was, and it's getting better all the time. I'm a happy user.
Josh Vanderwillik - I think gnome 3 was a smashing success. Sure you can't do applets anymore, but the extensions for it are amazing. It's rough around the edges, but it's a step toward an overall more advanced product.
Leandro Perona - I liked Gnome Shell from the moment I saw it. It is minimalist and good looking. I dares to try new concepts. My favorite feature is dynamic workspaces. I use workspaces to organize my work and before Shell I couldn't decide how many were enough. Not any more, now I have as many as I need when I need them.
Dynamic workspaces is the feature that convinced me to install Shell as soon as it was available in Debian Experimental, less than a month after the official 3.0 release. I've used it everyday since, with only some small video driver related bugs every once in a while. Not bad for a 1 year old desktop environment.
Gnome Shell has not failed. Gnome 3.4 is to be released tomorrow. It comes with Gnome Shell.
What is your opinion about the Gnome 3 Shell? Share your thoughts on our Google+ page.
Swapnil Bhartiya
A free software fund-a-mental-ist and Charles Bukowski fan, Swapnil also writes fiction and tries to find cracks in a proprietary company's 'paper armours'. He is a big movie buff and prefers listening to music at such high volumes that he's gone partially deaf when it comes to identifying anything positive about proprietary companies. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+ & Facebook. You can write to him on editor at muktware dot com
