your definition of "trivial" is different from mine haha

(fwiw: my propensity for installing new DEs and distros in the hope of solving all my problems was what made me leave linux in the first place)

While I'm glad that I'm not the only one who is in the same situation and frame-of-mind as you, I wish more people admitted this. The endless chain of Linux re-distroing to fix issues is absolutely the main issue with Linux.

I blame Ubuntu's mid-2000s decision to offer "Ubuntu", "Lubuntu", "Kubuntu", and "Xubuntu", which seemed to convince people that the only way to change desktop environments is to reinstall Linux.

They're all there, just a few clicks away in whatever crap-ass GUI Ubuntu has stuck on top of apt these days. At the end of the day, all these distros are just Debian, Redhat, or (rarely) Arch under the hood, so if you get sick of lack of support for JimBobLinux, you can just install Debian and quit fucking around. I did that 15 years ago (good god) and haven't regretted it.

The answer that never changes regarding the use of desktop Linux.

Because Linux isn't a UI.

Desktop GNU/Linux, better?

No, but it illustrates what I was getting at: that's dozens of operating systems.