Gnome is the only pure Gnome!! The official Gnome website is at gnome.org. Also there is OpenSuse . I think it is a good idea personally because it is one of the only DEs that doesn't have an official Ubuntu edition.
Ubuntu LTS versions are rather stable as a rule. The last one - 12.04 will be supported for five years - good news! But Gnome3 in Ubuntu (Unity, Gnome Shell - no difference) is too resource hungry. And it needs time to configure it - there's quite a number of various special gui tools that require some learning and it's not that easy to do administrative tasks in a usual unix way in terminal.
But when it's configured it works great and is very stable and reliable.
Re: GNOMEbuntu - Why?
Gnome is the only pure Gnome!! The official Gnome website is at 
. I think it is a good idea personally because it is one of the only DEs that doesn't have an official Ubuntu edition.
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