[alwayslikethis]

I used GNOME for a long time, but I didn't like the bloat, among other things, such as the "I know better than you" attitude from the devs. At the same time KDE has a tendency to get me into rabbit holes, and then inevitably something breaks at some point that I don't know how to repair because it is rather too complicated of a system. (This is ~2017, not sure if things have changed). For now, I just use bspwm, polybar and a set of GUI applications. While they are less friendly to set up, they are much easier to understand for me.

[WesolyKubeczek]

Things have changed a lot since 2017. In 2017, I wouldn't touch KDE with a barge pole because I had work to do and it would disassemble itself if I looked at it funny.

Now I'm writing this reply from KDE, quite comfortably, and it's quite stable. Comfortable, even. And it doesn't get stupid and die when I plug/unplug monitors and stuff.