[pluijzer]

I can second this. I have no need for Wayland at the moment and am still happy with XFCE but every time I read a comment praising KDE I give it a go again to see what I am missing out on. But it always feels, 'off'. I cannot quite put my finger on it. It feels convoluted, a bit sluggish. There are some animations/transitions which get in the way for me. I really do want to like it and honestly wonder if I am doing something wrong.

[AnonCoward42]

Just one little thing ruined my workflow back when I tried KDE ~2018. It was the newest Plasma version back then. What really screwed me over were bugs with window focus. Sometimes you have to click twice to get a window to focus and it's really really breaking my workflow in a subtle way. It wasn't the only problem, but one that I didn't even notice at first that they really annoy the heck out of me.

It was then when I tried the obviously inferior Gnome (3.28 iirc). And while I felt a bit constraint with it, I was so much quicker with it.

[JohnFen]

> There are some animations/transitions which get in the way for me.

I do hate those (but I hate all animations/transitions in desktop environments). You can turn them all off, though -- that's what I do.