[foresto]

You might want to wait a little while, or look at 5 instead, because Plasma 6 was only just released and is still shaking out early bugs.

> Every time I look at the release notes for Gnome, I continually find myself either not excited or disappointed in different decisions, additions and removals that were made.

This extends into the toolkit as well. I was happily using XFCE until it adopted Gtk 3, at which point it quickly went downhill. The GNOME maintainers' insistence on designs that I find frustrating, the frequent removal of common desktop features that I use, and the general fragility imposed on applications that surfaces whenever the toolkit gets minor updates, all conspired to drive me away.

It took some time and effort to migrate to KDE Plasma, but it was worth it. I'm pretty happy with my desktop again.

[juujian]

The KDE 6 Changes are mostly under the hood, so you don't lose a lot in terms of user experience either way.