Same here, after I've used Ubuntu for a few good years, which used to have a modified version of the GNOME destkop, I've switched to the new Unity desktop for a couple of years, until it started to ditch everything GNOME related... In the mean time, I've heard a lot of nasty things about the GNOME 3 desktop... but I made a little research about the extensions you can install and I plunged into it... and now I love my GNOME 3 desktop and can't live without it! Long live GNOME!