I just did a full wipe of my system to try out Fedora KDE, XFCE & Budgie spins (I finally got fed up with Gnome not being what I wanted anymore after like 15 years of using it as my preferred DE) and didn’t really have the same experience at all - even Fedora XFCE which you say was completely broken was working fine for me. I haven’t run anything other than Fedora in a long time though so I can’t really speak to the out of the box experience on other distros.

the app seems to be lacking quite a few features currently, I’m having a better experience using Lemmy in a web browser

I created a Grateful Dead community on lemmy.world, we’ve already got a few people participating and I’d love to see it grow

https://lemmy.world/c/gratefuldead !gratefuldead@lemmy.world