Nerd rage avoidance: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/material/brochure/1204-poster Unity grows on you...

If you want Gnome 2 back: CentOS / Scientific Linux / Springfield Linux fully supported for the next 4 years. Same kernel/applications generation as Ubuntu 10.04

XFCE4 on Debian Wheezy is pretty good. Will be updates coming down the line soon as they get ready to release Wheezy as stable.

I can see myself going back to dwm/dmenu: http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/linux-dwm-window-manager-on-de...