Kden lives technically kde app, gimp is based off gtk, and so on, but yeah you basically pick a starter for yourself based on what you priortize, I like gaming so cachyos helps me grab packages id otherwise not know about, makes it easy to tweak scheduler, kernel, etc. setup btrfs snapper support and pick different bootloaders grubs, refined, limine, etc.
There are other distros meant to be closer to windows by default, with their theming, de, app picks, etc. just look around distrowatch
They all come with different preinstalled apps, which are a mix of os and de dependent, like mint with cinnamon may use nemo for files, cachyos with gnome may use nautilus, but I like nemo so on cachyos with gnome I have nemo installed and set as the default.
Deepin and elementary have unique des I think, and pop os with cosmic in alpha
You cant really go wrong, de is more what decides the desktop experience, like theming/look ,etc. Kde plasma, gnome, cinnamon, xfce , etc. or tiling managers like hyprland (id stick to des for now coming from windows)
Ive mostly tried plasma and gnome Kde plasma is windows on steroids, customizable and snappy, tons of settings, most customization built in and not reliant on extensions
Gnome is like chromeos/macos futuristic opinionated, I like it a lot with extensions, slightly better than kde plasma with a lot of extensions imo
Cinnamons like closer to a simple windows experience
xfces lightweight but I think plasmas caught up there?
Ubuntu is an alright first pic, id prob reccomend something fedora based instead since I prefer flathub/flatpak to the snap store, bazzite if you game, imo the best default app store bazaar (can dload anywhere I have it on cachyos but it may be hard to figure out at first)
Cachyos, I swapped from windows with it, og dualbooted, ended up never wanting to open windows agaun
They pushed ocean sims to the max in the last one, I enjoy watching cgi/vfx idrc about the plot, also the naavi are hot, tall alien baddies when
anyone joining a public group that silenced ppl outside their while pushing out their content publically is someone who I dont need to talk to, please see my comment and block me thank you
I'm a man, but lemmy should add a way to block every single user in a community so we can avoid seeing each others posts alltogether, im doing it manually off the posts but its a hassle
when you like how things are you dont really actively fight to keep it, other ppl actively fight to get rid of it when they dislike it, silent majority loses
there are more of us than there are puritans, they just have been blwoing up their phones/emails for years
Indian hate goes up whenever india related policies go into effect, trump tarrifs india and no one gived a fk since all day see is normalized indian hate for months prior