I do, but that’s only because I daily a laptop. On my desktop I had hyprland. IMO a wm is not practical on anything portable. Multi monitor is a pain when I have to connect a projector, changing power modes is finicky, iwctl and bluez aren’t that practical when you operate them from anywhere and a clickable ui is more important in certain situations, so you need a DE to do all those things quickly and for them to just work®.

Between gnome, KDE, xfce and cinnamon, I ended up using gnome. I need fractional scaling, which rules out the last two, and need certain theming, which is more complicated. In my experience, the only theme that properly covers all the assets in KDE is breeze, all the other I’ve tried are incomplete, not uniform, buggy or have other problems.

Not to say gnome themes aren’t buggy, but I just had more succes with them

I mean if you dont like gnome its fine, but still better than using windows, what’s the hold up?

gnome has HDR, idk how well it works or how much gnome distrupts your workflow

diehards really kill the community. I think the guys from suckles are most guilty of this

idk about others, but for me, KDE feels unpolished. Besides breeze, nearly every theme feels or is unfinished. Now, gnome is also pretty finicky to theme, but in the end i had some pretty uniform and fully featured results which I haven’t been able to replicate on KDE. Also extensions on gnome are pretty neatly implemented. The only downsite do gnome is how stingy they are with Wayland (No server side decorations and other important features)