Elementary has been around for a long time. From what I recall, it tries to ape the Mac style on Linux the same way that KDE has been accused of aping Windows.
It’s on the front page because Apple dropped the ball so hard with Tahoe that people are willing to entertain the thought of switching to just about anything other than macOS
It's very tempting… but first our Logitech peripherals would have to work reliably after sleep. I can put up with the other nonsense. Not being able to use the keyboard and mouse is what's preventing the home computer from being a Linux machine.
It's baffling. If you move the dongle to another USB port things work again. But!, the dongle can never go back to that same port. So after 4 sleeps we run out of ports and have to hard shutdown with the power button.
It's a weird world where KDE out of the box is more usable than Windows.
I gave the wrong laptop to my mother a few months back and she only told me when she finished banking that the windows menu looked funny (Like the hacker one you put on the family computer when you were 12.) it was KDE. Usually she asks for help at least once on windows for getting the wifi connected.
The year of desktop Linux was 5 years ago and we didn't even notice.
The original founder (Cassidy James Blaede) is now a designer for GNOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq8Cq9LixE
I wonder why this is on the front page today.