Trisquel provides a good experience out of the box imo, as long as your hardware is supported and if you don't mind the dated looking interface. I used it for a while on my corebooted laptop.
I didn't used much any other "100% libre" distros. As much as I wanted to use it, I never managed to have Guix to run on that machine.
[edit:] to answer OP's question, I would use a distro that ships with it.
Oh that’s an actually insightful answer! Thank you!
I don’t really have any issue with KDE, I’ve actually barely used it at all, I was merely trolling.
It’s juste the “a lot of functionality at the expense of simplicity “ that doesn’t speaks to me in general.
I understand the criticism against GNOME, however I got to really appreciate the effort they are putting in simplicity and integration. Once you get used to do things “the gnome way” , it’s really comfortable imo. I guess the same goes for any DE or WM.
I use Aeon btw, so of course I’m all in for using vanilla gnome!
Cowboy Carter, much?