I was on 10 and now I’m on Pop. That’s the first I’ve heard of them prioritizing development of a DE.
I really don’t like GNOME, but switching to KDE was literally the first change I made, so I honestly don’t know much about it.
But I don’t really care as long as what I do with it works. I don’t foresee any killer features upcoming soon or anything. I don’t really keep up on news about it or anything though.
I’ve had a mostly smooth experience with it so far. But I don’t use it for anything crazy. I just pay games and stream YouTube and music.
Not trying to convince you that “the water’s fine, jump in” or anything. But it worked for me. I don’t hear a lot about other people picking it up.
You find a million posts about trying Mint or Ubuntu to get their feet wet, but you don’t hear a lot other than those for Linux noobs.
I bought a tiny PC to hookup to my brother’s TV at his house because I go over there on weekends and we always watch a movie followed by a few episodes of whatever TV show we’re working on at the time. His laptop cord is having issues and want able to power the laptop while it’s on. So rather than deal with that I just bought the tiny PC and I did put Mint on that one.