Ubuntu is not even good in my opinion. At least not as a normie Distro.

Yes they have lots of docs online but "it is good because people think it is good" is not a good argument.

If you dont like GNOME I guess you will have a harder life anyways, as Distros with KDE are just a really hard task. Like anything stable is not a good idea, I at least reported 30 bugs that will never get backported fixes.

The fact that appimages are broken on Ubuntu is like the only thing that I completely understand and dont care about. Appimages needs to get their stuff together.

I hope many projects will convert from Appimage to Flatpak

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Appimage-To-Flatpak

alpine is great if you don't plan to use a gui and just want to set up command line stuff. not all new linux users are looking for a desktop replacement. some just want a server for file sharing or running plex, etc.