I've had an IKEA Galant since 2010 and it has served me really well, to be honest, there still isn't anything wrong with it but after doing some redecorating in my room it was time for a change.
Must have spent ages looking for desks they were either too experience for what they were, not long enough or no deep enough. IKEA's new desk system 'Bekant' has weird rounded corners and owners of the Galant system say they not as good.
So I was going to get Karlby kitchen worktop from IKEA and put it on my Galant legs. When it purchase and £40 delivery I'm okay thank you and started looking around for other worktops.
One thing leads to another a couple of free samples later, I brought a real oak worktop from worktop express. Has a carpenter around the corner cut to size than that weekend, I sanded and varnish it after watching some YouTube video and the finished the product came out really well.
Found some legs on eBay, screwed them on and now I use a desk I made myself every day.