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Mivey@gu4n The base GNOME experience is focused on minimalism. If that doesn't work well, you can explore the great selection of extensions you can install. From Desktop Icons, to all kinds of taskbars, there's a ton of way of making the GNOME desktop look completely different, with just the click of a mouse. KDE isn't bad either, (have to) use it on my Steam Deck, but for actual desktop work, nothing beats GNOME for me.
@mivey KDE kept throwing errors after suspending the system. GNOME is quite slick so far. I found this blog post with some recommended extensions I could look into. https://www.noureddine.org/articles/a-better-desktop-setup-with-gnome
@gu4n The suggested extensions there are pretty good. I would also want to mention "Caffeine" which allows that fullscreen apps don't trigger sleep, and it can also turn off night light for fullscreen apps, as an option. I like "Quick Close in Overview" which allows to close apps in the overview via middle click. "Night Theme Switcher" is neat if you want to switch from a light to a dark theme at night (might not be for everyone). I also enjoy "ddterm" which is a quake mode terminal