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I dropped gnome when they trashed the desktop for the new tablet like fad. Went to xfve, then mate, cinnamon, KDE.. to me gnome with Compiz fusion was the pinnacle of desktops. I get why they wanted to start fresh, but it broke my perfect setup. I haven't even bothered to look back since then, how did it evolve?
Ubuntu still ships desktop icons on gnome, ding is a pretty good extension for it