@kramo I don't hate GNOME. I dislike it because it doesn't match any standards. It doesn't supply its own window decorations, Adwaita has missing icons that are present in most other icon packs, etc.
It's also ultra uncustomizable unless you install extensions which can break each other, and the vanilla UI looks like it's made for touchscreens in mind (which is fine but not my cup of tea).
Also, there's so many "flavors" of it that look almost completely different that some distros use that I don't even know which to pick or whether to just pick vanilla
From what I've heard it's great for developers but terrible for users
If any of the above is disinformation that was given to me then I'm willing to try GNOME once I finally get my Linux set up