Sorry, did you just say you liked gnome 3 yet told us that the file manager isn't great? I use mod + left/right to move my windows on Mate. Alt tab still works

Sorry, did you just say you liked gnome 3 yet told us that the file manager isn't great? I use mod + left/right to move my windows on Mate. Alt tab still works fine. Mod + r shows the run box which shows all the same entries as the menu. I used gnome 2 for many many years but also kde 3.5 (Konqueror did everything!) so the modern gnome 3 experience seem dysfunctional to me. I even used gnome 1 - must have been on RedHat 6.2? One thing I can't stand on the modern gnome apps is the hamburger menu and popout menus that are impossible to spawn from the keyboard. Eg. alt-f won't bring up that menu so you have to fumble around with the mouse. But thank goodness gnome exists, whether in gnome2-forever guise or the "modern" (I would say less-useful) 3.