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Gnome3 < NWM

So, with the recent upgrade to gnome3, I not pleased with what I see. I have to install an extension for some of the most basic things gnome brought to the table from the get-go. Configuration was insanely obscure, and I had to dig like crazy to remember where things where and how to invoke certain windows (which eventually drilled down to me just knowing which /usr/bin it was to execute it). Aesthetics had compatibility issues - one day I'd load fine, the next, I'd get graphics errors and then gnome had to switch back to "fallback-mode" which was basically metacity with no compiz support :( Now, I'm locked in a state where I can't get my extensions to load right and my windows are a vertical line again - great! I'll admit, the design was a tad up on the traditional way gnome is built, but at least it was simple and got the job done. Come with a baseline set of workable extensions that play nice with each other as a default set of the install, or at least