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xeyownt | on: IceWM
Loving Gnome since like 15 years.

Switched for Unity for a few years when I was erring on Ubuntu side, where I like the minimalism style.

Gnome 3 was a shock but nothing any normal human being can easily overcome. The hardest was to live without a taskbar, but I'm free now.

Would never touch KDE-let-s-make-this-pixel-also-clickable, but that's the power of freedom: you can choose what you like.

pjerem | parent | next
You should try KDE just out of curiosity. It’s gone pretty far from what it was 15 years ago (which, iirc, was the sad KDE 4 era).

Nothing is forcing you, but you may be surprised.

robotmay | root | parent | next
I really want to like KDE. Every time I set it up on a system I have non-stop issues. Probably mostly tied to Wayland, but either way it's just not reliable enough for me to use. Even tried KDE Neon to see if being on the latest version would help, and that eventually killed its entire install by itself.
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asdfsa32 | parent
What do you use from Gnome?

Do you use NetworkManager or systemd-networkd or something else? What is your login manager? Do you use Gnome for email or anything else?

I am asking this in earnest because I don't believe Gnome has left anything useful beyond GTK as the library (if you consider that useful) and maybe nautilus. Everything else is just bolted on and weird and broken.