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Yeah.

I haven't tried it but Elementary has always seen like a clone of OS X. And like most clones likely to be a bad clone.

Gnome is a bit crazy these days, I'd recommend kde.

Would disagree. Using Gnome with Fedora and it's rock solid and does everything I need as well as looking good.

Have they stopped removing menus from everything?

Elementary is fine, it doesn't strike me as a bad clone of macOS, but I recommend kde too. For a tech savvy person by far the best DE right now.