not sure of it’s the default, but I change Gnome or KDE to that. I think it’s KDE’s default.

I’ve been wanting to, it’s good to hear this vote in favor.

I’m a regular Gnome user. I love KDE’s activities. I don’t know if it’s still required, but Latte dock made it so that you had a nice dock with clean animations, dropping and adding your preferred shortcuts for whatever activity you’re currently on.

I generally had three activities, work, general, and play. switch to work, and it looks like all I do on this computer is work. professional look and feel, all the relevant applications available in a clean autohide dock. switch to play, and it’s some sick background from anime or a game I’m currently into. Steam, Discord, Heroic, and various preferred games are the only visible icons on the dock. it’s really a pleasure to use.

my problem is that when in Plasma, I miss Gnome’s overview, though, and whenever I switch back to Gnome, it just feels homey, functional, and straight to the point. Sure, I lose some customizations, but I gain in simplicity. Overall, that itself is a big customization choice - whether to use Gnome, KDE, or something else. …so I don’t regret Gnome’s lack of customizability, that’s just Gnome fulfilling is niche well. But Plasma is always a close second for me.

it’s all stuff you need to sort through to get to the relevant settings you want. Some people aren’t there to learn to OS, they’re only there to use it.

the things I wanted to do required a non-standard dock (latte?), but made activities so much nicer.

my dock only had icons on it that reflected the current activity, my backgrounds were different, all the tools for the specific activity that I was doing were immediately available, but weren’t cluttering up the dock when I switched to other activities.

activities really are sweet, I’m sad to hear KDE is backpedaling on them.

That said, I’ve been using Gnome because the blended workflow of interacting with desktops, searching for applications, and working with open applications in the overview is just as sweet as it comes.

am i doing it right?

man, I love the workflow of meta-arrow switches desktops, and meta-shift-arrow takes your current window with you.

eh. only vaguely.

basically, there might be some conflicts, such as a different icon theme being selected, but for the most part, things are fine - and most distros, uninstall is straightforward.

one more significant issue you might run into is display manager changes. Gnome may not always play nicely with a kde display manager, and vice versa, regarding sleep, lock, etc. however, i think all of those issues are pretty much fixed these days.

the patience to read lots of documentation.