I owned one of the later models of the Asus EeePC and let me tell you, Gnome 3 ran like a old dog on it. Totally unusable. I don't know how you could use it. The processor was awful, the screen resolution tiny, while Gnome was a CPU hog and wasted screen space the eeepc simply didn't have with spacial bloat of interfaces evidently designed to be fat fingered on touch screens the eeepc didn't have.