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Kde is so ugly and buggy, requiring tons of setup n knowhow to fix. GNOME feels limiting and oversimplified, but honestly 9 out of 10 times its fine.... even if its setting menu infuriates on the regular.
Im old and i dont having 100 hrs to rice shit anymore
Surely you confuse Plasma and Gnome. To get a sane setup on Gnome, you need to install Refine to enable the minimize button and Gnome Extension Manager and then install and enable Dash to Panel or Dash to Dock.
That's an insane amount of setup work for someone who doesn't know about those things.
I'm pretty sure you can live without the minimize button. I've used Gnome for 3 years and I've never felt the need to minimize a window. Even now after I switched to KDE Plasma a few days ago, I still don't minimize windows.
I'm volunteering in a repair cafรฉ where older people bring their Windows 10 computers and seek help migrating to Linux because their PC told them that Win11 isn't compatible.
I make recommendations based on each person, trying to realize what they wish for first if they have an idea what they want. A few months ago there was an >70y/o man. Let's be realistic here, at this age it might well be the last PC he ever owns. So I set him up with Alma Linux (extra long support cycle) and made its Gnome desktop as Windows-like as possible. He's not getting pressured into unfamiliar UX metaphors and no way I'm pushing software from EPEL or anything that onto him. I enabled Flathub and temporarily installed aforementioned tools to make the necessary tweaks, then uninstalled these tools again, and installed a few of Gnome's games, Celluloid, and Chrome off Flathub.
For the rest of the day he ate cookies and drank coffee and seemed pretty happy with that setup. We invited him to come back, should he have any further questions. Haven't seen him again.