I think with anything it takes time to get used to an OS. For me now it has to be Plasma (KDE) and a more secure system than Debian - the breakaway Devuan that uses SysVinit bootloader - more simple, more secure than systemd as is present on nearly all other distros except Arch based ones. I was hoping to make a go of Artix Linux but it does not have Canon listed in Print Manager!
I think Plasma has a better file browser (Dolphin) than Gnome (Nautilus) and changing the theme of the cursors is much more simpler and more variety than Gnome.
Global theme:
Theming in general:
Plasma Styles:
Icons:
Wallpapers:
And yes I'm heavily into New Retro Wave music!
Historically, a 6th form student who was helping out IT Department at the School where our Integrated Resource was based introduced me to Knoppix 2.9 live - wow, a system that speaks to you on boot with Borg 1 of 9 saying "All systems are operational". I was advised to give Mandrake a go, which I did, Mandrake 10, but the downside is that I was on very slow dial up where you had to dial in like a fax machine and speeds were 56 kbps - yes that's right, 56 kbps - kids today that have internet access don't know how lucky they are - can remember the wonderful Norton Internet Security Suite 2002 - took an hour to update only to be told on completion that "The update was unsuccessful! Please try again" and waste yet another hour only to see the same message - good riddance to Windows! So I used to take a CD in to download the updates to Mandrake in my lunch break. Updated with the CD only to break my Mandrake install! I have tried multiple different distros which I have posted elsewhere on this forum, not necessarily in chronological order, which you can read here: