@mcc

Personally I despise Gnome. I use KDE from Kubuntu on my laptop (A Dell Inspiron 3580). It's my system for all personal use except for playing and developing games, which I do on a desktop with Windows 10. (I used to do my gaming on Kubuntu as well, since Steam now has excellent support for running Windows games on Linux.)

I wish I could suggest something that would make you say "WOW this will fix all my problems" but ultimately it's a matter of personal preferences. Good luck!