Indeed, GNOME Classic is a disaster, and much of what used to work, no longer
does.
When I found that neither Unity, nor the GNOME 3 Shell were for me, I
tried GNOME Classic, but it failed so badly that I decided that I would no
longer upgrade to the newer Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 10.04 remains my main system
for now, but my next system won't be an Ubuntu.
Of course, you don't have
to use Unity in Ubuntu (just like you don't have to use GNOME on
Fedora), but I suspect that you won't really be a “First-Class”
Ubuntu citizen if you run any of the other environments on it.
I'm playing
with Linux Mint Cinnamon these days (which I initially installed for relatives,
to replace an ancient Ubuntu 8.10 system on their computer), but in the long
run, it currently appears likely that I will move to plain old
Debian—probably running XFCE or LXDE.
Even though Ubuntu may no longer
cut it for me, I remain grateful because that was the distro that allowed me to
ditch Windows completely at home, and it introduced me to the Debian
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