I was a huge distro hopper until I started using immutable distros. One thing no one tells beginners is that you do have to maintain your system more on Linux than other OSs because Linux gives you the rope to hang yourself with. I would always bloat my OS and things would get unruly, everything would slow down or become unstable and I would lose track of how I had everything set up. Immutability make things so much cleaner.

You missed the step where you tell everyone what distro you use, and that its the best.

Started with Ubuntu ended up with arch

I’d rather someone’s first choice about Linux was which DE to use. This plays a way bigger part in first impressions.

The obvious choice is KDE, ofc