Its easier to learn if your muscle memory is still similar

• taskbar with apps, aligned to the left
• nearly no workspaces, everything through clicking
• normal Window decorations
• normal start& app menu
• filemanager with features
• firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice, inkscape, xnviewmp, freefilesync, kate, krita, ... all the cross-platform software you can learn before switching

I dont agree at all. I switched from KDE which is basically just the way better Windows 10. Windows 11 looks nice but is incredibly bloated, Windows is rock stable though which I admire. KDE is the exact opposite poorly.

But at the beginning the mix of familiarity and "wow a filemanager with tabs is so cool" made me stay with KDE immediately.