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Just use KDE Plasma
This is what I concluded in the end...
I do at home, can't choose at work (but we keep pushing the people in charge)
I heard of imposing operating systems (which I'm also against*), but never specific distros or DEs.
* at least for technical people who know what they're doing and wont spam the IT support
My company started enforcing Macs this year but as a special exception they'll let us use Windows or Ubuntu. No other distro and the CTO must still authorize it.
The reason? Meet some vague security guidelines that the PR team wants us to be able to say we meet, by forcing us to run a spying agent to ensure our OS is up-to-date so I'm not vulnerable to leaking data I don't even have access to. But the tool doesn't support anything that updates frequently.
I had just built a brand new laptop for work and I refused to sully it with Ubuntu so I installed it on an old desktop and just been putting zero effort into fixing Ubuntu shit. Wifi often can't handle meetings, none of my cameras worked ootb - also can't go to the office anymore since I can't carry the desktop there.
Still a year away from being able to request the company buys me a machine again (last time there were no conditions for it) - but I don't intend to stay here until then.
Tried it. You supposedly can customize it any way you want, but after struggling for like an hour trying to make it look clean, I wondered why I was trying to force that. The UI in KDE is not clean. It's messy and has exposed many options I would never use. People love to hate on GNOME but I think they're only doing that because they know it's so popular. And it's popular for a reason.
I have a seemingly yearly tradition where I manage to convince myself to try out KDE then am usually back on GNOME after a week. I genuinely don't get the hate for GNOME. It looks clean, has great defaults (especially the keybinds) and mostly stays out of the way. I don't hate KDE, it's just not for me and that is okay.
I don't like the defaults of any the common DEs, so I always end up customizing whatever I use. Last time I tried KDE Plasma I was still running into bugs too often. I've been using gnome which is generally more stable, but it has a lot less stuff on it so I end up Frankensteining everything.
It's probably time for me to try Plasma again though.