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Linux Mint. People praise it as the perfect Window replacement yet when I tried it for a week, it didn't do anything better than default KDE Plasma Desktop. And since the devs haven't even started to work on Wayland support, the Distro will soon fall way behind.
I use Plasma and like it. I wouldn't have stuck around or really got started if it wasn't for Mint.
It might. Then we can still switch. For the time being it works just fine. The maintainers are a bit conservative for good reasons though. Mint is supposed to just work and for the most part it does just that.
I hated Cinnamon, I tried to like Mint. but it's a botched patched Ubuntu