OT: Unity and GNOME 3

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> I suspect that Unity and GNOME 3 will be unaccepted by most Linux users
> even in the future and I don't think that a GNOME 2 fork will grow up,

You know, over time the new shells will become better, and rolling
back to something else will become harder. So more and more people
will just adapt to what they get out of the box. Actually, it already
shows: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/which-desktop-environment-do-you-use-in-ubuntu-11-10-poll/
- Unity's Dash is still hardly usable as an application launcher, but
48% use it. If Unity gets a decent application launcher (and I'm
pretty sure it will get one for Precise), it will become even more
widespread.

> but I guess GNOME 3 will enable a GNOME 2 mode, aka they CAN'T drop
> fallback mode.

Actually, they can. They are even going to do it.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMTI
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxMjI
And I have to admit that consistent user experience is a good idea.

> At Debian users mailing list you'll read about users switching from
> Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora to Debian, just regarding to GNOME 3, since they
> aren't aware that Debian testing already switched to GNOME 3.

It would be nice to see that crowd switching to elementary OS seeking
Pantheon Shell :D