I used GNOME for a long time, but I didn't like the bloat, among other things, such as the "I know better than you" attitude from the devs. At the same time KDE

I used GNOME for a long time, but I didn't like the bloat, among other things, such as the "I know better than you" attitude from the devs. At the same time KDE has a tendency to get me into rabbit holes, and then inevitably something breaks at some point that I don't know how to repair because it is rather too complicated of a system. (This is ~2017, not sure if things have changed). For now, I just use bspwm, polybar and a set of GUI applications. While they are less friendly to set up, they are much easier to understand for me.