Mint13 with Cinnamon; not precisely Gnome3 but close enough. And yes, I did. I actually spent half a dozen hours fiddling with xorg.conf etc trying to get mult

Mint13 with Cinnamon; not precisely Gnome3 but close enough. And yes, I did. I actually spent half a dozen hours fiddling with xorg.conf etc trying to get multiple monitors to work with fglrx [AMD proprietary driver]. I should have known better. Especially since my not-that-old card is being dropped in the next fglrx anyway.