I love nemo, with the terminal extension, it’s the perfect file manager.

I use it on gnome though.

With just arcmenu, dash to panel, and tophat, gnome becomes pretty solid for me, everything else is just a bonus

dropdownterminal, I think openbar for color and border customization, timer in topbar for self timing work assignments, appstatus whatever its called for the background apps to show up, it does rely on extensions, but I see that as a bonus, it’s up to you how complicated you want your setup to be

Burnmywindows ofc

I also think its great for handhelds, have dash to panel and arcmenu there too but configured differently. On the left side and resized larger with less options and one of the larger grid options for arc menu