I'm quite fond of Gnome 3. It's gotten a whole lot better since it started (it was kind of a mess when they started). Every two-ish releases I try out Ubuntu a

I'm quite fond of Gnome 3. It's gotten a whole lot better since it started (it was kind of a mess when they started). Every two-ish releases I try out Ubuntu again to see if Unity's better, and each time it seems like they never address my main concern, speed. Unity seems really slow. I've never done benchmarks or tests, but on an i7 machine with 16GB of RAM, I would expect it to be snappy. It's even worse on my netbook. I like the dock on the side, but the super menu and alt+f2 prompts are really bad in my mind. If I could get the dock, and maybe the global menus (I'm ambivalent on them), with Gnome Shell's activities menu, I'd be happy. Also dynamic workspaces, I really like those.