You say you shop around but only mentioned KDE, while XFCE, MATE and Cinnamon would be more suitable first alternatives for a previous GNOME user. Unfortunatel

You say you shop around but only mentioned KDE, while XFCE, MATE and Cinnamon would be more suitable first alternatives for a previous GNOME user. Unfortunately they're still susceptible to GTK maintainers bad decisions but despite that they're still a breath of fresh air compared to GNOME.