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Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren't the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.
Gnome is pretty well integrated with everything, especially with extensions to make up for less features in stock gnome than kde.
Yeah I tried gnome for a little bit on a previous Pop install and didn't like it as much so I went with KDE when I switched to Nobara.