[bitcoinofficial]

The majority of Linux distros are just forks of other major distros with swapped apps/DEs, so no need to expect magic.

Elementary definitely has a nicer software center UI and I personally love their terminal application more than others (even though I currently use Kubuntu). Many people like it because it reminds them of macOS, even though you don't.

And you're kind of right about GTK, but elementaryOS uses the Pantheon desktop environment built on top of GTK.

Elementary has the most gorgeous look for my taste.

[FussyZeus]

Unfortunately, at least when I last tried during Loki, it's also extremely limited. I couldn't even install Firefox. Software in general seems to be limited solely to their bespoke storefront, which I'm not opposed to on principle, but (at the time anyway) it was pretty limited.

[mattkevan]

That’s odd. Have Firefox happily installed on Juno, and the latest version has Flatpack support built-in. Anything else has always been a PPA away.