I used to love the choice after being limited by Windows but it meant all the development and design efforts were split between different desktop environments so mixing apps from different desktop systems was an awkward user experience.
I preferred KDE the most but I never understood the obsession with the number of customisation options. These surely slowed down development and it felt like you had to be the UX designer yourself instead of sensible defaults behind chosen.
Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.
> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.
The difficulty is that one persons "sensible default" is anothers "crazy terrible default". Particularly in the Linux world, fuelled by it being committed hobbyists who create much of the desktop software and the tradition of UNIX configurability.
> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.
Try Ubuntu MATE, if you want minimal customization you have some preconfigured defaults in MATE Tweak tool, if you ever want to customize more its super easy compared to every other DE I've tried.
I preferred KDE the most but I never understood the obsession with the number of customisation options. These surely slowed down development and it felt like you had to be the UX designer yourself instead of sensible defaults behind chosen.
Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.