Personalization and GNOME are mutually exclusive. But it's a nice laptop DE. For a workstation, you want KDE. It's the most full-featured and Windows-like and

Personalization and GNOME are mutually exclusive. But it's a nice laptop DE. For a workstation, you want KDE. It's the most full-featured and Windows-like and customizable DE, by far. Also, try Manjaro, so that you don't have to fiddle with PPAs or OS upgrade re-installations and have ALL the newest software (via the AUR) all the time, like you do on Windows. : p