There are a couple reasons I can only back Gnome at this point, even though I loved/miss XFCE.<p>Wayland multi-seat + idle-inhibition
HDR + variable refresh
Fractional scaling (I think XFCE has some/all of this?)<p>We're just playing catchup to MacOS for over a decade, and soon enough Linux will have to compete with 3d desktop environments (Apple Vision Pro interface). I think we're almost to the point where the DE will be just a physics simulator (game engine) to help augment your reality.<p>Anyway, I still use XFCE on resource-limited hardware but Gnome has been the only option for a while because progress isn't being made by other DEs on these critical things (color, refresh, alpha-composition, and some wayland protocols missing in wlroots).<p>I'm just glad Gnome isn't the dependency hell it used to be, and has slimmed down. I really love what they've done with GJS but I believe there's a competing KDE bindings project.<p></naive>