I have not tried KDE 6 yet, but I have been running KDE 5 on Debian for about 1.5 years and with few exceptions, I find it to be fast, relatively bloat-free, an

I have not tried KDE 6 yet, but I have been running KDE 5 on Debian for about 1.5 years and with few exceptions, I find it to be fast, relatively bloat-free, and almost infinitely configurable. On my systems, it uses something like 1.2 GB of memory out of the box. Meaning you have a _very_ usable machine even with only 4 GB of RAM, as long as you can avoid the temptation to run Electron apps. Pretty sure that is impossible with Windows. I've tried basically every Linux DE and WM since I first started using Linux in 1996, and basically haven't been happier with the overall experience than I am now. Which scares me a little bit, because every time I get comfortable with a DE, someone decides to throw it all out and rewrite the thing from scratch. (GNOME 2->3, KDE 3->4, etc.)