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I highly recommend fedora kinoite for people who don't want to do maintenance or don't know how.
It being immutable makes updates incredibly easy, and makes it much harder to break the system, and kde is best for people who are familiar with windows.
I can't recommend KDE for people who aren't comfortable with computers as there are so many settings they can get into without knowing how to get it back the way it was.
GNOME with Dash to Panel is usually good enough for those used to Windows' layout, and you can set them up with Silverblue to get the same immutability.
Gnome addons break nearly every version upgrade, so, I wouldn't recommend dash to panel, and the problem of settings they can get into is actually mitigated by kinoites snapshotting.
Dash to panel gets updated long before Gnome typically hits stable. Especially on Debian like OP mentions.
No KDE settings are all done in the homedir, there is nothing snapshotted here
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240862
Err, KDE at least gives people the option to configure their system how they want.
GNOME takes those options away, so if you don't like what they have then you're stuck.
Yeah, it also requires a lot of 3rd party addons to achieve basic functionality. Laymen shouldn't have to search for these, and they also shouldn't have to deal with them when they inevitably break.
Gnome hasn't been for normal users since Gnome2. That's when they started doing things "the gnome way" instead of just what's pragmatic.