And what kind of UI should I like oh wise one, I’m not worthy of your wisdom, please tell me, I’m begging you!

There’s plenty reason to shit on gnome, they took off in a direction and changed the whole look and feel, without any option to keep something like the gnome 2 layout.

The introduction of Gnome 3 scared me away, the initial version was garbage. I switched to XFce and MATE, and eventually ended up with Cinnamon.

They may have made it usable, but I still don’t like the user interface.

Who uses Gnome these days? i have used the forks Cinnamon or MATE, since gnome shell was introduced.

It’s great that there’re so many good window managers to choose from.