Sorta-mostly agree. I’m not afraid to tinker, but I don’t really care to either. To some extent the pitch for immutable distros are that you won’t ruin everything if you fiddle with them. The Linux I installed years ago didn’t require fiddling, and hopefully doesn’t need a lot of protection from me anyway. If I was setting up a new machine today I might try an immutable distro, but I’m not going to replace a perfectly cromulent install I already have unless there’s a problem.

Definitely Gnome here. Though I have a long list of notes, it mostly just works exactly like I expect with little friction or guessing. I donate $100/year to both Gnome and KDE since they are both good pieces of software, and I love that I get to chose mine. Further, I think KDE is the logical choice for something like the SteamDeck where it’s going to have a lot of gamers that expect computers to work like Windows. (even if I don’t like it, >_<)