There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good DE) or recommending Fluxbox and LXDE (good DEs too) isn't good. To recommend something unstable as Enlightenment or something that comes with similar issues as GNOME 3, e.g. Cinnamon or something that isn't in official repositories from Debian and most other distros, e.g. Mate isn't good too. IMO the OP should test Xfce4. Just to name each DE we know and like isn't a help for the OP.
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