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I couldn't agree more. I think that tying yourself to a specific distribution is a good way to keep yourself in a box. I think the better question here is "What DE do you prefer?" and then choose your distro based on your preferences for desktop environments while keeping other things in mind (i.e. frozen packages or rolling base).
I, like yourself, pretty much require KDE to be functional on my desktop. A great distro for me is one that ships new KDE releases without much delay (or at least, one that's not completely unreasonable) without having to wait for the next LTS release to get all the goodies. This narrows down the choices pretty substantially as there aren't a lot of distros that meet this spec:
I prefer to have a rolling (or close to rolling base) so that really only leaves me with the top 3 options.
I'm not really here to shill for KDE, but just encourage folks to find the DE that feels most comfortable to them and then work on your requirements from there.
@ADHDefy @bigbox perhaps I should try KDE again, I've been using Gnome for so long now, before that, Xfce. Haven't tried KDE for many years and it didn't seem very polished or have the look and feel but from screenshots, it looks a lot different to back then!
I would wait for the release of plasma 6 before you bother switching though, if you're already comfy!
@Communist Cool, yeah I just remembered hearing a bit about that on @thelinuxexperiment Actually, thinking about it - I'm currently using Pop!_OS as my daily driver and @system76 have been working on Cosmic DE which looks pretty interesting!