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?
sway, the i3 clone for Wayland. I’m really happy with it, even on my Intel iGPU + Nvidia GPU laptop.