I spent all of yesterday building a PC (NOT easy, Jesus Christ) and now it needs an OS. Fuck windows, or course, so I want a Linux OS. I’ll be mainly using my PC for gaming and editing videos, and I’d much prefer something that works similarly to Windows just for comfort purposes since I’m already familiar. Also I’ve heard Linux is incompatible with some games?
So, nerds, what do you recommend?
Running KDE (a.k.a. “Plasma”) does not require any changes to the underlying OS. It is just additional software which can be installed from the package manager. The display manager (the thing which prompts you for a username/password to log in) allows you to choose which desktop environment (I.e. Gnome, Cinnamon, Plasma) you would like to use for your session.
Distros which ship separate Gnome/KDE versions pretty much differ only in their default settings and out-of-the-box experience.