[mystified5016]

The only reason to choose Plasma over XFCE is that KDE made a token effort to integrating it with the system.

XFCE in all default configurations I've ever seen is a program. It's not part of the OS, and that's clear in the user experience. XFCE doesn't include enough control over the system, configuring your OS is a thing you have to do manually with a separate program if you're lucky. Usually it's a text file. We've all known for decades that this is why normal users think Linux is hard. KDE actually did something about it.

As much as Plasma is the best in class, it's still not good. I'd love to use anything else. I'd kill for an XFCE that works out of the box as well as plasma.

Unfortunately with the Wayland crisis, I doubt we'll see the Linux desktop brought to the standards of windows 7 anytime soon.