Allegedly, on or about 24 March 2017, Rick Stevens sent:
I rarely use Gnome3. Last time I spent time with it (granted, it was at least a year ago), it looked like it was designed for tablets and I don't care for that metaphor on my main systems. I've never gotten fond of KDE and I've never really done anything with the other desktops that others swear by. I'm an old f*rt and I liked the old Gnome2 desktop, so I use Xfce (which is fairly close to the way Gnome2 worked and felt).
Likewise. I liked Gnome 2. I don't like Gnome 3, and it's too heavy a workload for my PCs. I've said the same thing about inappropriate tablet interface style. And I don't like KDE. But I went with the MATE desktop, which is about as close as you can get to the old Gnome 2 as I think you can get.