Gnome 3 is the default DE I'll install. But I very much dislike the default setup: the combination of the top bar and the title bar and the menu bar inside the applications themselves. 3 horizontal bars which are quite ugly.

Inside bspwm I use xfce bar with the menu extension and I feel like I don't waste as much vertical space. (it looks like macOS or Unity, except I don't have title bars)