> trying to switch to KDE actually sent me BACK to Windows.
....uh, why not use Cinnamon or MATE or Gnome or XFCE?
Conflating KDE with desktop Linux is strange
I say this as someone who suffered the same problems trying to use KDE (frequent windowing freezing requiring logout) and just swapped to Cinnamon. It's two mousebutton clicks at the login.
As someone who was trying to switch to Linux desktop for the first time, I didn't research all the many options available and didn't try multiple ones. I read that KDE was kind of 'bleeding edge' (I know this is a hot topic) and so that's the one I decided to give a try. I tried to get used to the quirks for a few weeks rather than switch to something else.
....uh, why not use Cinnamon or MATE or Gnome or XFCE?
Conflating KDE with desktop Linux is strange
I say this as someone who suffered the same problems trying to use KDE (frequent windowing freezing requiring logout) and just swapped to Cinnamon. It's two mousebutton clicks at the login.