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Nearly 1 month of me trying different distros. I have fully settled on GNOME. Just my person opinion. Not hating anyone.

Here's what I tried first and issues with each.

1. Ubuntu: Was already familiar with it as I used it on Windows VM. Didnot like snapo package management and less frequent feature updates. I am someone who loves to sacrifice stability for new features. I was on insider channel on Windows as well.

2. Switched to Linux Mint. Right after booting, I new this was not for me. It looked ugly and extremely childish.

3. Switched to Fedora KDE: While KDE had all the features I wanted, but it lacked that polish I expect from a modern DE. It looked dated. Animation felt weird. I would rate KDE even lower than Windows 11 for user interface. For features, it was 10/10.

4. Settled on Fedora Workstation. It's smooth. GNOME is what expect a modern DE to look like. I have zero issues with how it operates. I do have some complaints about missing basic features but most of them are manageable through extensions.

Package management is quite simple here as well. I have disabled Fedora flathub completely, now I just have to deal with rpm and flatpaks.

No duplicate bloats. It is just clean, customizable, modern, sleek and smooth af. I am never leaving for another DE and distro.

I have allocated most of disk space to fedora and kept WIndows 11 as a backup because some apps dont work on linux. Fedora Workstation is my dailuy drriver now,