Cinnamon and/or MATE are the real future for GNOME users. GNOME's mainline developers have their heads in the clouds, thinking if they make it shiny enough they

Cinnamon and/or MATE are the real future for GNOME users. GNOME's mainline developers have their heads in the clouds, thinking if they make it shiny enough they'll be the next Steve Jobs, and that's not anything like reality. Of course, it's fine to conduct experiments like gnome-shell. It's just too bad that they feel like they need to torpedo the whole platform and sink it all together, removing features others depend on (most recently: fallback mode goes away in next major release, 3.8) simply because they're irritated that someone is messing with their precious, beautiful design. I almost think everyone is just going to switch to KDE and I think we might be better for it; Qt is definitely superior to GTK.