Reinstalled my laptop to get a clean Xfce setup unpolluted by KDE. Glad I did. Feels nicer. Of course, Linux runs great on this i3 laptop but to be fair Windows 11 ran pretty nicely too.

I started with KDE on this laptop but as soon as I started wanting to simplify the desktop ‘stuff’, I realised I would save a lot to time switching to Xfce. All good now. Removed the dock and moved the main panel to the foot of the screen and auto-hid it.