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That's pretty good.
I'm gonna piggyback your analogy:
Ubuntu is like an aftermarket car company that put in their own engine. They've started putting locks onto things, and when you ask them to install certain options, they say "yes, here you go" but secretly put in a worse version of that thing that only they can fix.
Then you take it to a shop and say "please fix this part, it's one of these" and they say "that's clearly not what's in here, you're on your own".
KDE and Gnome are like different consoles and steering wheel, if you could bring those with you into your next car. If you're used to where the buttons and knobs are, you have the option to bring the whole thing over into a different car.
So if im most used to windows i should try debian with the kde stuff? Whats wine in this metaphor? Is that the same thing as kde?
Not sure this metaphor can be stretched enough to shoehorn wine into it.
Wine is just an application and it'll work in any desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, etc), and it allows you to run Windows applications. Think of it as an application that lets your system pretend it's actually Windows
(and for the pedantic neckbeards: yes I know this sounds like I'm calling wine an emulator, which it isn't)
Okay so i do know what dual booting is. So wine is sorta like ezpz dual booting without having to restart my pc each time?
Ty for your patience
It's a "compatibility layer".
Wine tricks Windows programs into thinking they're running in Windows.
It sets up a fake C: drive and intercepts requests for built-in Windows features with Linux equivalents that are wearing Groucho Marx glasses and T-shirts that say NORMAL WINDOWS FEATURE.
lol I'm dead
I'd say Debian with KDE would perfectly fit your use case and level of experience.