I really like GNOME but I just find desktop UI to be frustrating. Moving to the top left corner and then having to go to the bottom to see your apps is just dogshit. You can install mods and stuff to make it better but for everything you install you’re increasing the likelihood of bugs and incompatibilities that only increase over time, especially if the mods stop getting updated.

I do however like everything else. The settings are far more sensible, the KDE ones look like they started sensible and they’ve just kept on adding crap and moving stuff. It needs overhauling. The apps however are absolutely bang on and they’ve got totally the right idea. Included apps should be lightweight and cover everything you might need as a casual user, and if you want something more specialist you can go and find an alternative. All the KDE stuff is a mess; they’re all way too complicated, there’s overlapping functionality, and nothing gets updated. Unfortunately the GNOME apps just don’t look right outside of GNOME.