Coming from infra / system, most people I work with are the kind that use Linux both at work and at home. Of course, my selection is biased... but, those Linux

Coming from infra / system, most people I work with are the kind that use Linux both at work and at home. Of course, my selection is biased... but, those Linux users I met don't like fancy DEs. The less functionality a DE has -- the better. And, frankly, if Web wasn't so unnecessarily complex and so tied to just two programs that only come in GUI, I wouldn't even run a DE. And so would a lot of people I know. Also seeing how every bit of Linux configuration sucks, has layers of nonsense and brokenness... I just don't want another utility that screws up with my input devices. It's painful already as it is.