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Not that I know of, sadly.

Counterpoint : I can buy DRM free .flac from qobuz and actually own them, unrevokably, and store them on my jellyfin server. Absolutely no need for physical optical disks here.

KDE is incredibly "windows like", the "bloat" you might be refering to are options. The only criticism I agree with here is the footprint, KDE is indeed heavy and not recommanded for old machines.

KDE? Lightweight? Even cinnamon is incredibly heavy next to xfce and lxde. Have you ever used a sub-4GB of memory machine?

I do second mint (LMDE) for a non gamer and non tech savy windows 10 refugee though, it's debian so, stable, and cinnamon is an okay-ish middle ground between KDE usability and xfce weight.

My problem being quite package specific, it's not impossible, the biggest offender being qt...

"User-friendly" and "updated" sadly sounds incompatible. In just slightly less than one year of using Fedora I've had 3 bad qt updates that broke kde's softwares like kmail, 2 bad amd-gpu updates that made the gpu crash and 1 pipewire update that broke surround sound.

Those were all minor updates that were easy to revert though, just had to use the terminal for that and wait the next fixed version.

As someone in this category : wtf? I kept using the terminal all the time when I was still on windows. From 95's dos to 11's cmd.

I use kolour paint on kde, there are a lot of other similar FOSS softwares around too.

This used to be a thing, my first ever ubuntu install was made through such a tool (damn I might be getting old), a .exe that I ran on my windows 7 and that rebooted to a live ubuntu environnement.

Especialy nowadays with "features" like fast boot that removes the "press f# to access bios" prompt on startup to "speed-up the boot process"... Hell even when disabled (both OS and BIOS wide) some computers won't ever show me the damn thing anyway.

Historically speaking, from what I'm reading is that gnome devs have a history of bad decisions birthing forks here and there "fine, I'll do my own gnome, with blackjack and hookers" too, so I don't know how much weigh such a decision can have to be perfectly honnest.

Accidental paste mostly happens to me on my multi monitor setup where a window use MMB for other stuff like panning and I accidentally move on another screen.