I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?
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I’m with you on this one, I try other DEs and keep coming back to GNOME. Got a new NVIDIA Optimus laptop for work, haven’t gotten around to installing Linux on it yet but that will be GNOME. Stuff just gets done, most other DEs make me tinker with settings a lot… not to mention WMs. XFCE may be the exception, but it feels too dated.