By skyforbes I went with Linux Mint because I liked the way it looked (very much like Windows 7 which I loved BTW). So, I used Linux Mint (18.3 to 19.3) for about 18 months and living in the terminal about 50% of the time doing updates with it and editing files with vim and what not, I decided I'd give Arch and a Tiling Window Manager (TWM) a go. In February of 2020 I started using Arch Linux and have been using it ever since. I tried a few TWMs within about a 3 month period. At one point I had i3, qtile, AwesomeWM and xmonad all on my PC and I could switch between them (I did that often) until I found myself comfortable in 2 of them. Believe it or not, AwesomeWM and xmonad were my 2 favorites.
Then, I don't know why, I had to eliminate one of those TWMs. To this day I still don't know why I did that. But I found AwesomeWM to be a little bit easier to use. I really should have kept xmonad going too and just switched between them. I've been using AwesomeWM now for about 5 1/2 years. Not touching xmonad. I really should install it in a VM and see if I can reacquaint myself with xmonad again. I kinda miss it.
But, getting back to my point, I just installed KDE Plasma in a VM and I don't know why, but I think this could essentially kill Windows 11. The look and feel is pretty much identical. I would even consider making the start menu icon look similar to Windows 11's start icon if it would help entice people to come on over to Linux. Windows 11 is not good! I don't know WTF Microsoft is trying to do but they're steering themselves into a solid brick wall I think with Windows 11 and they're moving at 150MPH… It's not going to be pretty for them I think. I am afraid to know what Windows 12 will look like. It could be worse or it might end up looking like Windows XP again. Who knows?