I moved to i3 then to Xmonad after years of Gnome, I felt similar, just too much junk. Recently I set up a few new laptops and decided to try KDE as a "base la

I moved to i3 then to Xmonad after years of Gnome, I felt similar, just too much junk. Recently I set up a few new laptops and decided to try KDE as a "base layer" for various utilities I need, as its easier to install the DE and get the utilities as deps than download them all myself. The annoying truth about tiling WMs that I ignored for years is man it takes so much time to get set up exactly how you like it. I could drop in my xmonad setup like I've done on other machines, but I want to try one of the wayland offerings and just the time commitment is making me put it off. That being said, the most recent KDE plasma desktop is extremely snappy and polished feeling. More so than the windows desktop, and I feel like its 85% as smooth as say MacOS. I've yet to test battery life compared to a bare bones suckless tiling setup, but I'm still getting very good battery life without it.