If you want an experience that's similar to GNOME-when-it-was-good, I'd suggest Cinnamon, the desktop environment of Linux Mint.
If you want an experience that's similar to GNOME-when-it-was-good, I'd suggest Cinnamon, the desktop environment of Linux Mint.
What's the state of Cinnamon maintenance? Keeping up with underlying platform changes being the perpetual challenge...
Cinnamon is an independent project, it's not based on GNOME. Or what else are you referring to?