Everyone should choose their first distro based on what his friend/neighbor uses already. Direct support can't be beaten.

They're waiting for Debian developers backporting the patches.

If you use a computer, make regular backups.

dbus can also start a program. For example when one notification was generated and no notification daemon is running, then dbus launch one to handle the request.

Woo-hoo! Secondary hyper modifier key - can't wait!!!

Why do you want to get your girlfriend mad at you?

https://mobian-project.org/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/...

…and be userfriendly and must be lightweight on my brand new 32core ryzen.

In my time it was also nine. Back to the roots. ;->

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

It's a known and fixed problem. https://bugs.debian.org/...

Also it’s difficult to find a clear list of all the available environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

how the heck do I find out more about DE’s and which distro they are compatable with.

All DEs can be run on all mainstream distros.

appear to be the same visually.

It's just the default theme + icon packs. You can configure any DE to looks very similar as other DE, if you use the same icon pack + themes + wallpapers.

I should mention that I have zero interest in the window manager or tiler or whatever they are called. To me, they are super ugly and very confusing to understand :)

Spoiler: all DEs using a window manager, so all DEs are super ugly for you…