Gnome is the most common desktop environment for linux and I hate it. This article explaining how to fix all the terrible defaults just reinforces this view. I've used a half dozen linux desktop environments and settled on xfce4. xfce a basic DE that stays out of my way and hasn't really changed in the last decade. That being said, I don't really use it anyway, 99% of my time is spent alt-tabbing between alacritty and firefox.