I'm a lifelong KDE person but it's still clear to me that GNOME is crafted with care, and I find it pretty usable.

GNOME devs operates more like benevolent dictators. It sure is oppressive and you better be glad for what you are getting, but what they put out with so few resources is leagues above what microsoft can do nowadays.

GNOME is easy. Press the super key, type the first 1 to 4 characters of your application's name, press enter.

I haven't been in the GNOME settings for years.

I'm currently using Niri+Noctalia just to try them out, but I typically use Gnome and like it quite a bit for its simple, clean interface.

I use macOS and Linux, and the way GNOME works makes switching between them easier for me than when I run KDE, for instance (I'm sure others have a different experience, and that's what is so great about Linux).

Yeah; currently I'm on F43, wayland+KDE.

Death by thousand cuts. I'm moving back to Gnome and ideally away from wayland too. The thing as simple as secret management (for git and keys) is just one of these things....

Yes I hate gnome. I tried to use it but I needed too many plugins to make it work the way I need. I'm not the kind of person who adapts to software, software must adapt to me. But the developers of gnome love it and they make the best thing they want to have.

I hate their opinionated design and I love settings so I use KDE. I love that. That's the good thing about Linux. Everyone can use it as they like. Unfortunately there seems to be some pressure to unify things to make it more for "the masses" but I will not play along with that for sure.