Gnome is the worst desktop environment, except for all those other DE's that I've tried from time to time.

Mandatory Ubuntu hate as well.

I use Ubuntu btw.

I failed a gentoo stage 2 install 20 years ago.

I feel its almost like you all shoukld just stop presenting your OS bona fides unless its 1) solicited explicitly + 2) its explicitly relevant to the conversation even if 1) is not fulfilled