Cinnamon,Its updated freq,customizable,etc
The keyword is in your question “use” (…to “use” on…).
I work mostly in web design and to do that, I also need image creation and audio. My DE of choice is Gnome.
As you all know, AI-generated images are the latest craze but what many people don’t mention is that 95% of the generated images are trash which means, that constant deleting and renaming is a time-consuming job.
The way Gnome let’s me rename images is a DREAM!
Just select a bunch of images, right click > rename and I can specify exactly what I want. No other DE I know of gives me as much tweaking power as Gnome.
My setup consists of four computers of which two run Linux and the other two, thanks to Chris Titus, W11. I use SFTP to share files between the computers. Gnome lets me, when done, close the connection.
There are several more interesting advantages that Gnome offers BUT, not all is rosy. Programming is quite nice on CachyOS’s KDE implementation of Kate but I don’t seem to be capable of adding KDE to my muscle memory. I run KDE for a while and after reverting back to Gnome, it took me weeks to NOT go to the start button to shut down the system.
Gnome, thanks to Gnome Disks, Dash to Panel (extension) and ease of use gets my vote here, although, I am in the minority. For the record, I consider CachyOs’s implementation of Gnome the best there is in Linux land, second to none.