If you get an ugly rectangular dropshadow in Ubuntu Gnome 14.10 with the gnome-staging ppa (because Gnome 3.14 is so slick), install the Intel graphics driver from ppa:mgedmin/ppa; this ppa has a patched xserver-xorg-video-intel that fixes this for Utopic users.
Quicky: how to fix the weird dropshadow in Ubuntu Gnome 14.10
On open office plans
Corp: let's have open-plan offices so people interact Employees: but it's loud Corp: here, noise-cancelling 'phones so you can't hear anyone
A solution to some odd Gnome 3.16 issues
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 with the ppa's to bring me Gnome 3.16 (gnome3-team and gnome3-staging). After a bit of fiddling (removing some old extensions and packages), I got it to show me GDM. After getting into the desktop, there were some odd issues though. These issues also …