only if you’re the kind of person who likes to tinker and fiddle constantly
What if, completely hypothetically, I’m the kind of person who is incredibly lazy and just wants things to work out of the box with minimal effort and maintenance?
Any classic desktop environment will work, you don’t have to tinker with them unless you don’t like the default organization and settings. But there’s no way to guess what you’d like out of the box.
Tiling window managers are a niche for power users, they’re a different category.
What if, completely hypothetically, I’m the kind of person who is incredibly lazy and just wants things to work out of the box with minimal effort and maintenance?
Definitely Gnome
but not if you want two or more windows on screen at the same time. It hates you if you want that
Gnome or if you want something a bit different pantheon
Any classic desktop environment will work, you don’t have to tinker with them unless you don’t like the default organization and settings. But there’s no way to guess what you’d like out of the box.
Tiling window managers are a niche for power users, they’re a different category.