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I think you have misunderstood my comment in some fundamental way.

Just peek at his profile and it will all make sense.

TL;DR don’t feed the troll.

Reminds me of one of the truest comics I ever read.

Fair point, but out of the box KDE has pretty sane defaults these days. It’s a very inoffensive desktop.

I have just a couple customizations that I do immediately on a fresh install, but it certainly wouldn’t kill me to use it as it comes.

Old but gold.

I don’t know what the point of separate partitions for OS and userspace is, but whatevs…

Some folks like to be able to reinstall the OS while preserving /home. That’s the only reason I’ve seen for doing separate partitions. (I’m not someone who does that, but it’s the explanation I’ve seen)

EndeavourOS plus Plasma 6.

I don’t think I’ll ever use a distro that isn’t arch based again, and you can have KDE plasma when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. :)

while liking the old version seems like a uniquely old man thing to do, just hating change for being change

Gnome 3 was a huge paradigm shift. Most people who noped out of Gnome afterwards disliked very specific things about it, not just hating change for being change. This is a really dismissive and kind of insulting take.

I’ve been using Linux for twenty years. I didn’t use KDE until they declared Plasma 5 ready for primetime. (I hated Plasma 4, and didn’t like the look and feel of KDE 3.5 at all)

Since hopping on with Plasma 5 I have absolutely no interest in anything else. I love KDE Plasma and it just keeps getting better.

That’s me in OP.

Not only do I miss nothing from Windows, but also the decisions MS has made each and every year since I dumped them has only increased my conviction that I made the right move in doing so. Not one time have I read a MS/Windows headline and felt I was somehow missing out on anything I would ever want to be a part of.