No, the original link was to a shady fake "news" site with zero original content which basically contained copy&pasted Linus post peppered with a ton of ads. The green clowns below probably have something to do with it.
I'm the odd man out because I use Gnome 3 daily (on Debian unstable) and I haven't noticed any decrease in productivity... There are certainly some areas to improve, but it's nice, works well and it looks pretty. That said, I do look forward to the extensions...
I just tried gnome-shell and so far I liked it. With xorg-edgers ppa and bleeding nouveau drivers, it is smooth and fast on my aging laptop.
Granted, I spend most of my time in terminal and use GUI to launch Chrome, Thunderbird and GIMP (mostly via Alt-F1 and typing name of app), but still, I like it so far.
On a new laptop I plan to try again KDE (after 1 year working in gnome) just to see how far it went, but I strongly advise anyone on Ubuntu 11.10 at least try gnome-shell - it is so easy, so you will not waste much time if you not like it.
I prefer super key the Alt+F*, less labor, and faster and easy to notice the input area than KDE Alt+F2 like.
I have used to move mouse on screen up-left corner to see the windows thumbnails view. then the windows became hard to distinquish. On KDE, they have diffrent size or shape, and icons over the thumbnails.GNOME has the same size and shape, and the window's name is too small to read.
I don't know why people even bother with environments like KDE or GNOME. Go for something like Xfce or LXDE and you'll have a DE that gets the job done and won't suddenly decide one day to change everything. Any sort of productivity gained from the new "desktop paradigms" is lost to the bikeshedding that inevitably accompanies these changes.
Also, nice calling the work of others "brain damage" when they really try to improve the state of desktop usability. Granted, not every of the concepts is brilliant, but if you don't try, we'll be stuck in Windows 95 concepts forever
The problem is that Gnome authors didn't gave a chance to try -- they've just made a beta version lacking most functionality of the previous incarnations and shipped it along with all problems of fresh version of Gtk and systemd saying "Look how we've made Gnome better!". No wonder almost everybody hated this almost instantly.
Isn't it obvious that he means that they won't accept them as built-in and/or the defaults, not that they don't accept them as extensions.
Shipping sane defaults is not a bad way to go, given that the extensions are easily findable and installable by power users that want them.
I still run GNOME 3.0, so the extension installer doesn't work for me, so I can't confirm. But I think with GNOME 3.2 onwards the extensions gallery stuff should be installable pretty much as easily as extensions for your browser are.
(as context, there is a valley called 'Hell' in South Africa)
Oh, and it should be mentioned that nothing stops Linux distributions from shipping the extensions they feel necessary. Look at what the Mint guys did for their GNOME 3 setup: http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_lisa_whatsnew.php
