Gregory's Server@mcc if you prefer newer versions, you may want to try Arch (or Endeavour OS, which is basically Arch, but with a more user-friendly installation process, and even more shiny new things). In the last couple of years, I barely did any maintenance to make it work for me, and I'm on Wayland and all.
Also, in my experience, KDE is much more sensible than Gnome. I love it. It's still nice even when compared to OS X, and a lot better than Windows 11.
@wienski @mcc I've always found KDE a better environment than GNOME, just because the GNOME devs have very particular opinions about things, which differ from my own, and which they over time keep removing the ability to change.