but shit like this really grind my gears 
Like, the “start menu” -> type in name of program workflow is so awful. “ter” should become Terminal (Konsole)?? “settings” should return System Settings, not fucking KDebugSettings.
GNOME just works so much better, and literally the only reason I stopped using it is because I want my games to screentear. And the patch to enable that is taking forEVER to land.
My experience was thankfully completely positive. I turned it on once, never thought about it again. It just works. I happen to have G-Sync monitor, obviously paired with an Nvidia GPU, but still. I’m also very sensitive to tearing, so getting a higher refresh rate with gsync was the main reason for getting a new monitor at all, to finally be done with tearing (over a decade ago by now).