The counterpoint is RISC OS for GNOME.

GNOME 3 was trying to built a clean modern minimalist desktop without all the clutter inherited from the design of Windows... But all they know is, very visibly, Windows and KDE.

RISC OS is that clean legacy free desktop. It's unlike anything else, built from scratch by a team not interested in what the rest of the world was doing.

And it's still alive and still updated and works well on modern hardware. Several separate efforts are building 64-bit replacements today.