> ...Simple, unobtrusive, and continuously improving without many sudden changes that force one to relearn how to use it. In all those past decades of Desktop

> ...Simple, unobtrusive, and continuously improving without many sudden changes that force one to relearn how to use it. In all those past decades of Desktop Env evolution, one thing I learned to appreciate is no need to be aware of the actual kind of Environment. Ideal DE should just be transparent to user, just as the underlying OS. We interact with tools, the environment just lets us find them and helps us organize our stuff. I get aware of the DE when it somehow gets in my way. For example, I remember from Ubuntu 18 in Gnome Terminal context menu two entries shared the same hot-key (_Preferences and _Paste in this order). Or in File manager, there was no direct way to enter full path. Or in Save As dialog the file name would loose its highlight after switching back from selecting the destination folder. Sure, other DEs have their share of annoyance, but generally I think that transparency will be upon us... soon.