disclaimer: I really love my GNOME 3 In GNOME the fallback mode is really a fallback. You aren't supposed to use it, like the safe mode in Windows. And you do

disclaimer: I really love my GNOME 3 In GNOME the fallback mode is really a fallback. You aren't supposed to use it, like the safe mode in Windows. And you don't need to - the interface is really easy to use with a cursor pointer (I use at different times a mouse, a track-point and a track pad) and there are shortcuts, which you can modify easily if you want and add new ones, too. For example I press the ThinkVantage button to bring me a terminal window. GNOME 3 is almost perfect for me. I've never liked a window manager better than its gnome-shell - its both very expressive (shortcuts, simple tiling behavior, mouse+keyboard collaboration, 3 different ways of window switching behavior - a dock-like thingy, an expose-like thingy, workspaces and shortcuts) and you can do lazy maneuvers with the mouse. I'm not familiar with anything that comes close with that combination and simplicity and sophistication. I recommend to anyone who feels limited to read the gnome-shell cheatsheet: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet