Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping

Liked After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro by Bhuwan Mishra (It's FOSS) If you're picking your first Linux setup, this is the question worth asking before you pick a distro: what desktop environment does it ship, and does that match your hardware and your preference? This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro. Speaking for myself and save for briefly using Ubuntu with Unity on a secondary device back in 2014-16, I have exclusively run Arch-based distros on my main workstation (Manjaro with KDE Plasma and XFCE from 08/2020 through 08-2022 and EndeavourOS with XFCE, Cinnamon, and now KDE Plasma from 08/2022 to present). I have tried different operating systems on my other devices and these days typically opt for Fedora with KDE Plasma on my…