If the distro has solid Cinnamon repositories I recommend that to noons (in other words, Mint). It is pretty seamless. Honestly the thing really holding back the era of Linux desktops st home is that Libre Office looks different than MS Office. In the office it is the management, SCCM is hard to give up apparently.
I prefer KDE in every way. I tried to like - even love - GNOME but always come back to KDE. It's superior in many ways, it can even mimick GNOME better than GNOME itself.
KDE is faster, smoother and more powerful than GNOME on all my 8 machines. These machines' age range from mid 2000s to 2023 and KDE comes on top.