after i first time last year (our BigCo like any other BigCo likes SUSE and that one isn't fast on bringing in new changes) faced GNOME 3, i was wonderstruck at the engineering feat what it is ( no joking, great engineering achievement, just for different world, and it took some effort to downgrade back to GNOME 2). Seeing GNOME 3 made me completely sure that Linux desktop of our dreams just isn't coming.
Maybe 2018 is the year of the Linux desktop? ... one can dream...