> /r/unixporn has a lot of _beautiful_ looking desktops

The emphasis here should be on the word _looking_ instead. A lot of these desktops (majority are hyprland setups) reveal themselves to be superficial jank when you try to do anything remotely commonplace, like connecting to a new wifi network. It's great that windows slide around at 60fps, but if your answer for managing your network is to open the cli, what even is the desktop for?

And I say this as someone who uses Gnome and maintains his own extension forks.