thanks a lot for all the recommendations !!!!
now I need to read all the reviews and test each one of these distros, this'll take quite some time I believe :)

cheers
jy

2011/11/14 Tony Austin <gigaday@googlemail.com>
Since I use xmonad as my window manager and only fire up e.g. nautilus
when i need it the gnome3 thing doesn't really matter to me and ubuntu
stays perfectly usable? Isn't it possible to install a real gnome2 on
ubuntu, too?

flo

There Is a Linux Mint extension to Gnome 3 Shell that should work in Ubuntu 11.10 and restore Gnome 2.x functionality:

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/try-new-mint-gnome-shell-extensions.html

Tony

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