Ubuntu is just too dated for development work IMO - I need to rebuild everything from source or find 3rd party PPA for anything remotely recent - I&#x27;m fine with compiling deps for production but for development the distro really shouldn&#x27;t be getting in my way of trying new stuff out.<p>That said I&#x27;ve had many performance issues on GNOME - I like the way it looks and the &quot;feel&quot; and I got used to the UI over the last year or more but frankly it&#x27;s constantly hogging my PC down, both desktop an laptop - when I switched to KDE&#x2F;plasma 5 I saw my WebGL chrome app go from 40-50 FPS to consistent 60 FPS - both tests done after a clean start and simply starting the app letting it run for a while. The entire system feels more responsive - can&#x27;t trace the issue but the results are measurable and noticeable<p>I&#x27;ve had flicker and stability issues with KDE 5 when I last tried it a year ago but now it appears quite stable. My only complaint is that themes&#x2F;design community are nowhere near to Gnome.