For the past few days, I had been trying to get some distrohopping in, and trying KDE. I'm a huge fan of KDE Connect, and I find how GNOME interacts with Wayland standards to be quite quixotic, so I wanted to try KDE proper. It also was everything I wanted out of Windows XP when I was a kid with its absolute customizability.
However, I couldn't quite get used to it. I was already quite used to the workflow of GNOME, and while I could live without dynamic workspaces or it's nice dash, my favourite part about GNOME is its laptop-friendliness. I like how GNOME has touchpad gestures, and how nicely software under GNOME works with my beater laptop's touchscreen. KDE, lacking touchpad gestures, couldn't really replace GNOME. In that way, it feels weaker than GNOME for the laptop.
Now, as for the distro-hopping, I just find setting up Fedora Workstation to be a pleasant experience. To me, Fedora and Alpine are my go-to Linux distros. Alpine when I don't need GNU, and Fedora when I do. I sometimes get bored though and want to have an explore. I explored, and I remembered what just works for me.
I don't really believe any distro is bad (except Manjaro, and I feel it's more that the company behind it just does not care), but I definitely have my preferences. Those preferences are staunchly in favour of Fedora and Alpine. As far as desktop environments go, at least on a laptop, I prefer GNOME when I need a full-fat DE and Sway (or i3 if I can't use Wayland, though I'd need to spend more time configuring that) when I need something more minimal or keyboard-focused.
Maybe I'll give KDE, with Fedora KDE, a go on a desktop when I actually set mine up.
