Hey there! -- I absolutely hear you on KDE Plasma... If you feel like putting a few hours (worst case a day or weekend into it) you could take a look at: - XFC

Hey there! -- I absolutely hear you on KDE Plasma... If you feel like putting a few hours (worst case a day or weekend into it) you could take a look at: - XFCE - BSPWM (very minimal, lots of set up, and not great documentation, but I manage windows for the most part without leaving my homerow now, so I love it. once you're past). If you're not one for keyboard shortcuts and muscle memory, it may not be interesting, but I run bspwm and love it. Point taken on the GTK pain, it was so painful that I stopped using it (I used to run linux mint, and cinnamon/mate, Gnome, were also thorns in my side), and wince every time something I want to install has dependencies on GTK (just because it pulls in 10098123 other packages every time).