Tried the beta a couple of days ago on my amd setup (nvidia video card) and it looked all very nice and was very fast (libreoffice cold starts in a blink of an eye) but.... couldn't get compiz working at all. Linux to me had always been about choice. The choices in Gnome are being eroded day by day... eventually we will have a desktop that's either on or off. I want my desktop to be unlike anyone else's. Changing the wallpaper is just not enough...