I have tried out Gnome, KDE, Lxqt and Xfce on a regular desktop and all of them feel nice. I haven’t tried many DE’s on a laptop.
Are there any particular DE’s you like on a laptop, because of things like power consumption and efficiency that would not come normally into consideration for a desktop?
xfce is the least buggy de I ever used, never seen anything not work as intended on it even on very low en hardware
That was the main reason I choose it over the others. Having a stable DE that doesn’t change much which works great with nvidia and xorg.