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Mint. Because apparently "task bar and start menu that looks like gnome 2 and/or xp" is heresy in modern ui design (although maybe kde would also work? Had some papercuts that put me off it last I tried though).
Also, it turns out that getting a full time job really kills your desire to tinker and mess around with your personal system. I just want something that works.
Because apparently "task bar and start menu that looks like gnome 2 and/or xp" is heresy in modern ui design
You get that with pretty much any DE. I think KDE even let's you choose between xp and 11 style of start menus, but I can't remember windows details. I've even seen GNOME configured that way in the previous version of nobara, but I'm guessing that would take a while.