No. It is usually either a specific need or personal preference. Preference is what led me to Mate. Have tried others.
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Hope the link gives you the answer. Please let the community know if this, or something else you may find, resolves the problem.
Yes! That solved the problem!
That problem has annoyed me for a very long time, and just as the person posting that question, I don’t understand why this behaviour is default… It does not make ANY sense to me… So I understand very much if others have discarded GNOME. I begin to wonder if I should look for another desktop for my Ubuntu OS…?
In my view, you simply waited too long in asking for help. Yes it took a couple of days to get resolved, but how long have you dealt with this?
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If you switch to another desktop or a different distro you will likely find something else annoying. Switch if there is something else that better fits your needs and not because, as I see it, a minor annoyance put off for too long. 
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Yes. You are right.
I switched from MS-Windows some years ago, and I am quite happy about that. But there you don’t have a number of ‘desktops’ to choose from, so I have no idea about in what way one desktop might fit my needs better than another. 
Most distros have an image you can download & put on a flash drive. Can be run from there (some limitations). It can give you an idea.
Also, I have a spare 240GB ssd (120 will also do - both inexpensive now) where I can install a distro to try or even restore a backup image for some test.
Lots you can do with little investment.
You seem to have tried several distros and desktops, maybe even as a hobby? But I am not an OS nerd. I just want to find an effective tool as fast as possible. So my approach would be to try to find articles on the net, that compare distros or desktops. I did something like that to choose Ubuntu. But I don’t think I considered choosing a desktop.
I just read most of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments . I don’t think I need to know more about desktops and distros now.
After 7+ years with LO & Linux I am still searching.
If you consider helping others here as such then yes. Often testing on a different distro is necessary. This is also the only reason I have Windows10.