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To be honest, I'm a bit out of touch with many of the multitude of choices.
My daily drive is KDE, been using it for more years than I care to remember.
I hate Gnome, it just seems to get in my way at every turn.
I bump into others (like on the Pi or on a VM where you want something lightweight) but don't generally give them a serious play.
OTOH, I notice Plasma no longer supports wobbly windows. That could be a deal breaker, and perhaps it is time to move on. Just not to Gnome ;)
As I've mostly used Ubuntu and Pop_OS I'm most used to Gnome and tweaks of it.
Played around with Mint and found Cinnamon OK but nothing special. Also had a go with Ubuntu Budgie which is very bling but not all that functional IMO.
Not knowingly encountered the others so looks like it's Gnome by default.
Was a long time GNOME fan until 3.x, that killed it for me. Maybe it's fine on a touchscreen device like a tablet but it just seems clumsy and inefficient on a desktop system, like Windows 8 did. I used MATE for a while but find it hasn't evolved, still looks and feels like GNOME 2.x. I realise that's sort of the point but they could have evolved and built on that a bit while keeping the same overall architecture. I've used Cinnamon for a while now, it's not ideal but it can be made to work pretty well.
KDE just always felt like a half-finished mess to me. SUSE's implementation of it is probably the best I've used but whenever I've used it I just found it frustrating and inelegant. I always felt like they'd introduce something new, it wouldn't work well, they'd refine it for a while then just before they got it right they'd throw it out and introduce something else which didn't work and start again.
I prefer things to be as lightweight as possible, so I'd go for XFCE or LXDE.
This would be more if I was having a play with something in a virtual machine though, so I have no idea if they'd realistically hold up as a daily driver if I switched from Windows to Linux.