Earlier in the week I dist-upgraded my laptop, as I do from time to time, and now I have been forcibly updated to Gnome3. Well, I've been using Gnome3 for ages, except that I always ran it in fallback mode, but that's been removed now.
My experience has been "upgraded" to include regular crashing, a gnome-shell process with 1.415GB resident memory (and climbing...) various annoying visual effects, a system which no longer suspends when I close the laptop lid, which migrates all my windows away from the screen in front of me when I plug in an external monitor. And the lock screen looks like something that was stolen from Android 1.6.
I thought I'd try Cinnamon, which looks kind of more my thing, but when I open the menus it locks up - presumably some kind of bug in the graphics drivers, it also happens to me when I run Cinnamon 2D...
Meh. So frustrating. This is why my wife won't let me upgrade her laptop (and why I will no longer be upgrading my mother's laptop), and I can't imagine how frustrating this crap would be for a naive user to deal with.
While I wrote this the gnome-shell process has increased to 1.427GB resident, and I really don't want to have to reboot my laptop every day - even weekly reboots would be annoying.