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Kubuntu, no other DE is comparable in polish to KDE... keeping an eye on the SonicDE project though which is a KDE fork without the Wayland lock-in

Straight debian for minimal footprint appliances or ancient hardware, but still generally lean Ubuntu server most servers

OpenBSD for paranoid appliances where security is paramount

Distro hopping is mostly procrastination/vanity, they're just curated preferences with little material effect... and they're all based on one of the big 3.

Picking a distro based on the out of the box theme is frivolity. Ricing is a good description, like idiots slapping Type R stickers on stock Civics in the Fast and Furious era.

In Linux you can tweak anything to your liking, which you'll have to do inevitably, so just stick to something and make it work the way you want... that's the point.