I use Gnome 3 quite a long actually since the release of 3.0. Unity wasn't my thing but since the controversy I didn't know ended removing it. Cinnamon for me still looks Gnome with extensions didn't make sense and still doesn't makes sense lol.

I could tell you, I did try Fedora 14 when they have Gnome 2.32 but that time feels out dated the looks of the desktop, then comes Fedora 15 with his shiny Gnome 3 and since then Fedora for me is and still is my favorite distro mostly because they bring the most clean without much additives on Gnome.

Even if I making a pause in using Linux, technically four years now without using it. I've been watching closely the advancements, now Gnome 40 series or this case 45 looks awesome to me.