I think DE is more important than distro to new folks
ZorinOS was my first. I highly recommend it to people who want a GUI and a good looking distro.
openSUSE Tumbleweed if you want super up to date with GUI.
Fedora sucks imo. I know many people love it, but I always had issues with it and had to look stuff up online, which I never had to do with other distros.
EndeavourOS ended my distro hopping. I just don't need anything. It's perfect for me.
Ubuntu is not even good in my opinion. At least not as a normie Distro.
Yes they have lots of docs online but "it is good because people think it is good" is not a good argument.
If you dont like GNOME I guess you will have a harder life anyways, as Distros with KDE are just a really hard task. Like anything stable is not a good idea, I at least reported 30 bugs that will never get backported fixes.
The fact that appimages are broken on Ubuntu is like the only thing that I completely understand and dont care about. Appimages needs to get their stuff together.
I hope many projects will convert from Appimage to Flatpak
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