gnome was very stable actually. Never had any major problems with it. And it was far more productive than this crap called unity.
I've been playing with it couple of weeks and I just don't like it. How come that typing a name of app is better then selecting it from menu??? Previously I was always 3 clicks away from anything (I'm talking about stock gnome) and now it's click, click, typing, click And that "dock" with giant icons Why such a huge icons? It's not tablet OS. We do have mices and touchpads.

I have to say that although gnome3 is very similar at first it's actually far more usable and productive and far less confusing than unity. But it doesn't work on ubuntu. I'll either switch to fedora or go back to maverick. I tried ubuntu classic but copmiz doesn't work. Well, 80% of functions I used before doesn't work.