I am on Debian 12, and tried all these 4 DEs before coming back to GNOME. Since you sound adept at LXQt, can you recommend me something better than that weird network connection manager GUI that LXQt comes with? I found it extremely bad compared to what XFCE comes with, or the extremely easy ones with GNOME and KDE. It should not take 20 seconds to find and connect to a WiFi.