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Re:Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion) by npaquin on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @09:41PM (#2844140)
Compat mode is still pretty crappy.
Re:Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussion) by logic on Thursday August 04, 2011 @10:51AM (#2846191)
I'll second this very strongly. Compatibility mode is a shadow of what Gnome 2 used to be, and I've spent enough time using it at this point to feel pretty comfortable saying that.

(And if you do any work in a VM, you too will become very familiar with compatibility mode.)