I'm going for Debian, will try gnome shell to see how far it has come since it's beginnings and once I find out it sucks (most likely outcome) I will install XFCE.
I'm writing this on Debian Sid (unstable), which as of few weeks ago has GNOME 3. It works pretty well - has some quirks and bugs, but overall I think it's a great improvement over GNOME2. (This is on my main work computer).
Awesome, I can't wait to be back on Debian, nice to know Gnome3 might be a viable alternative to the bound to die Gnome2 and the sometimes disappointing Xfce.
