I'm on Ubuntu Gnome with touchegg and use three finger up/down for workspaces and three finger left/right for the history in browser and Nautilus. There's even

I'm on Ubuntu Gnome with touchegg and use three finger up/down for workspaces and three finger left/right for the history in browser and Nautilus. There's even a gesture to toggle tabs in Firefox like ctrl-tab. It's not as smooth as a Mac, but still better than Windows :)