Having given up on people telling me what I don’t want (GNOME). KDE is now the GUI of choice.
An install of fedora KDE spin and here are my initial installs:

dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories
dnf config-manager --set-enabled rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
dnf install akmod-nvidia

dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
dnf install openssl-devel libxml2-devel libcurl-devel ccache
dnf install SDL SDL2 SDL-devel SDL2-devel SDL_gfx SDL_gfx-devel 
dnf install SFML SFML-devel freeglut-devel glew-devel glew glade glfw glfw-devel glm-devel 

dnf install xscreensaver kate filezilla encfs clang clang-devel cmake steam gtk3-devel R-devel p7zip blas blas-devel R-core python3.6 baobab gnome-disk-utility
dnf install powerline powerline-fonts mc htop f23-backgrounds-extras-kde f24-backgrounds-extras-kde f25-backgrounds-extras-kde f26-backgrounds-extras-kde f27-backgrounds-extras-kde f28-backgrounds-extras-kde f29-backgrounds-extras-kde f30-backgrounds-extras-kde f31-backgrounds-extras-kde f32-backgrounds-extras-kde jupyter-notebook gitg monodevelop inkscape gimp blender spacenavd krita dia scribus kdevelop seahorse nextcloud-client calibre evolution gource kdenlive lollypop

dnf copr enable dani/qgis
dnf install qgis python3-qgis qgis-gras

dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
dnf install vlc

Don’t forget you’ll also want to install RStudio,etc. and make the adjustments to your .bashrc file for the powerline to work.
…and you know what did it for me? Desktop backgrounds.

And the downside is that I’ll now spend about 2 hours adjusting settings to get my look absolutely right 🙂