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Re:The challenges of Desktop Linux by fmoralesc on Saturday September 01, 2012 @05:47AM (#4463253)
> Borked: Unable to boot into the GUI, unable to downgrade properly or go back to the earlier version of Gnome.

Gnome 3 didn't bork your system, your distro's upgrade path/lack of testing did.

Re:The challenges of Desktop Linux by keithpeter on Saturday September 01, 2012 @06:52AM (#4463347)
http://clonezilla.org/ has saved my bacon a couple of times when having upgrade problems with distributions or other radical changes.