Thread:D.A.W./@comment-1970265-20120602192900/@comment-1970265-20120603205558

I started off with GNOME 2 on Mandriva, but migrated to Xfce amidst rumours that GNOME 3 was imminant - and from what I read about that DE, I positively hated it (particularly GNOME Shell, but also early versions weren't very customisable). I have Xfce set up similarly to GNOME 2 (heck, I still use Nautilus and Gedit), albeit with just a top panel (no bottom panel).