It's weird that after so many years Linux DEs are still in this immature state. And we again find ourselves looking for something more permanent that "just work

It's weird that after so many years Linux DEs are still in this immature state. And we again find ourselves looking for something more permanent that "just works". I was hoping for unity to be it, but apparently the bar was too high for canonical, so now I'm looking at either lxde or xfce too.