I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?
I love how customizable i3 is but I’m not ready to go keyboard mode yet lol
I really get that.
It’s a bit of a curve, but it gets suprisingly easy suprisingly fast.