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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Pretty much like other Linux users are saying here, KDE Plasma is typically where most Windows users feel most at home at. And it's a great DE independent of that anyway. I also agree with some of them that Ubuntu's foray into trying to develop and maintain their own DE's fell flat on it's face as well. Unfortunately it was always recommended as the 'go to' for beginners. My personal opinion is that I don't like Ubuntu or its children.

Fedora KDE Spin or Nobara KDE IMO would be a better choice. Just make sure to enable 3rd party repositories on Fedora so you can get nvidia's closed source drivers if you use nvidia GPUs  and some more codecs.
gpt
This feels like an actual answer thanks. I'll check these out. And yeah, gnome on ubuntu felt super clunky to me.