Can anybody tell me why people are hating on GNOME 3 so much?  I can’t seem to quite figure it out.

The best that I can come up with is “Because it’s different.”  My Jack O’Neill response: “And? But? So? Therefore?”

I’ve been using GNOME 3 on Debian 7 for the past few months now, and I don’t see where all the hate is coming from.  I did a few things to tweak GNOME, but nothing drastic.  Sure, it may be a little annoying to not have a taskbar, but there are a bunch of extensions that give you a taskbar back if you want it.  Whenever you get a new program, often times you have to customize it to the way that you want it.  Everybody that’s complaining seems to be either a) hating change and/or b) unwilling to spend the time to customize things to how they want them.

When you get a new car, does it automatically match up with what your old car was like?  No, of course not.  When things are redesigned, there are going to be changes.  Some of them are bad.  Some of them are good.  Sometimes, it would help to read the manual.  Because then you might understand what is there and how to use it.  Because just opening something up, going “this is complicated and stupid, I’m going back to what I was using before” is not very productive to anyone.  Often I find that when things are changed, they do seem complicated and stupid.  But once I give it a chance, I can then better evaluate what is wrong/what is working, and how I can tweak the experience to better fit my working methods.