they will be the top 5 YOU!! decide / need 
people have different need so there no top 5
thats my number one as well. Number 2 for me is “Tiling Assistant” and Nr. 3 is “Freon”.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3733/tiling-assistant/
All this talk about Gnome or KDE. . . I can agree and disagree on a lot that is said here. I gave them both up for Cinnamon. A much more simpler approach to things and is well structured for everyday use. KDE was too busy for me and Gnome was too simplistic and lacked features despite it’s lack of bloat. I guess it depends if you like bloat or no bloat in software with the bells and whistles. I love cinnamon because it has just the right amount of everything to get the job done. It too could use a few improvements though.
Rich 
I use this as well 
I use Vitals instead (see the picture in my previous post).
Cinnamon is a nice DE.
I like cinnamon as well. Used it for a long time, and my wife still uses it.
This week I gave cinnamon a try on my main machine and I see core dumps whenever I change a theme. This seems to be a known issue since August 2022:
Very annoying thing.
I like them all I make the choice in wich mood I am…
As gnome extension I only use tiling assistant, because I don’t change the vanilla-gnome workflow.
I assigned a Mouse button (forward button) to the super-key, wich helped me a lot.
I’m running Cinnamon on a 11 year old computer and a new mini-pc with Ryzen 4700u. Both are loaded with software from Endeavour and AUR. What works will work. . . . what doesn’t . . . . doesn’t until someone has the programming know how to fix issues software bugs. I haven’t seen too many segmentation or core dumps and am using the latest 6.2.12 kernel and Cinnamon 5.6.8 on both. I’d like to see where deepin as a OS shell is heading. . . .it to me seems highly functional and the installation as an OS is smooth for the most part. . . I play around . . . to see where things are heading. One thing I might add is that boot times are substantially faster in my mini-pc. . . 20 seconds and its up and running. . . whereas my old computer takes probably a minute to get there.
Rich
- Pop-tiling
- Caffeine
- Gsconnect
- Dash to panel
- That’s it, gnome is perfect after turning on dark theme.
this is one of "wow , I want to use Gnome " cases : 
The hyperlink you posted seems flawed. It only works, if you copy the link-text and paste it in a new browser-tab. Direct clicking the link leads to https://link/ which is equivalent to dev/null.
Thanks, it is edited now
My GNOME Extensions:
Alphabetical App Grid by stuarthayhurst
AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support by 3v1n0
ArcMenu by andrew.zaech
Application menu for GNOME Shell
Bluetooth Quick Connect by bjarosze
Dash to Panel by charlesg99
Extension List by grroot
GSConnect by dlandau
Just Perfection by JustPerfection
Places Status Indicator by fmuellner
Removable Drive Menu by fmuellner
User Themes by fmuellner
Vitals by corecoding
By far the one I needed the most was Alphabetical App Grid lol! I can appreciate the incentive to type the app you’re looking for in the activities menu, and while I do that plenty, I’m also a browser. I HAVE to be able to browse. Can’t do that if it’s not OCD organized. I mean CDO organized.
andouille is a sausage made by French immigrants “Cajun’s” in the south central regions of the US! Cajun foods are often complicated and incorporate many flavors, often hot and spicy and usually rich and incredibly yummy! The word andouille (the L’s are silent) is french, not English and comes from Cajun’s incorporation of French with English as the spelling and sound clearly indicate.
It is pronounced Andooee, and it’s mighty tasty! 
Hello (and welcome back)! I too like GNOME because to me, it’s simple and intuitive. I found it really easy to adapt to its gestures and it’s very easy to visualize what “happens” in my desktop environment when I navigate through it or I move things around. Pretty funny to think that I used Windows for so many years and never used virtual desktops because I couldn’t visualize the flow well… thirty minutes running GNOME, I had it all figured out 
The experience is nice, apps are well integrated, and while some problems are (were!) present (mostly with Wayland, but I understand that it’s a problem faced by a great majority of Wayland users) I was able to fix them with the power of internet. And while it does not have that many options, I find the available ones enough and uncomplicated. I also actually like the concept of extensions and how they are applied!
Speaking of extensions, here are 5 of my most valued extensions, in alphabetical order:
- Caffeine
- Dash to Dock
- Just Perfection
- User Themes
- Pop Shell
I know everyone’s experience and preference vary, and GNOME may not suit others that much, but it works for me very well. So I like it and appreciate it. 
I really could go for some jambalaya now.
I hate to burst your bubble, but KDE not only comes with way more than you probably need, but you can turn things off and hide them, and if you look into it, it too can be expanded greatly with extensions and addons to the whole DE, as well as most KDE apps. For instance the Dolphin file manager, can be customized even further and added to, to do all kinds of file conversions (Audio and graphics formats), do operations on them, like rotating, resizing… graphics files and so much more without having to open them in programs, and do them en mass! Krename is an app that can also be launched directly from Dolphin to do procedures on any number of files, even whole folders and folder trees. You can select files based on all kinds of criteria, and as many as you want, number them, change capitalization, and way more than I can possibly list here, replace parts of filenames to correct spelling and a lot more with only a few clicks. Kate the text editor blows Gedit away by far out of the box, it understands many programming languages, can highlight programming elements, gives you a snippets interface for often used text you can insert with a few clicks and more, and also can be extended even farther via addons, you can search for and install from a page in the programs settings (Dolphin and others do it that way too)!
I gave up on Gnome a long time a go because of it’s limitations, and because it’s harder to extend, so really the KDE being complicated part is not at all complicated, it’s just vast, but you can add and change things in all the same ways for all KDE components and additional apps and it all works together in harmony to make Linux the most productive and quick OS to do just about everything with, hands down and by far.
Simplicity is often a ruse, because all that means is limited options, and because of “out of sight = out of mind” you won’t know what you are missing out on, and maybe even believe what you want cannot be done! It can! It’s what I hated most about Windows and MAC’s, because although you can do lots of things, you are limited to what that means and in what way, and all too often I felt like in kindergarten when I was university level, because I couln’t tweak the details, and you only got what M$ was willing to give, so you had to download all kinds of additional programs and what not because of the limitations of the supplied ones, and at a high security risk!
Not sure if Gnome brought the normal menus back as most computer OS’s and programs have had since the very first GUI (I am that old), but when they got rid of them in favor of that hamburger menu, I was done with it, because it just made everything harder to find and get to, requiring more not less clicks, all to supposedly gain screen real estate at a time resolutions were high enough (still growing) there was little need to go that rout. I would understand it before 1998, but in ~2020, really? Ridiculous! The least they could have done is give you the option of using either or, and in KDE, you can turn menus off, customize them… and have it your way, which is the whole point of having more than you need, because that’s just you, and I need different things, and there is no such thing as “One size fits all”, and with KDE, you are your own tailor, and have everything to rival the best of the best!
Jambalaya! Extra hot please! 
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