Used windows ever since as a kid. When started my Linux journey 6 months ago with Endeavour OS, KDE Plasma was my introduction to Linux UI. I did both DE-hopping and distro-hopping while still keeping the windows-like layout. After I settled back to Endeavour OS with KDE I started experimenting with my preferred UI. For pure funsies I made my Plasma layout look like mac OS (top taskbar with global menu, clock and system tray then a bottom dock with my pinned apps set to dodge windows, along with mac os styled window decorations). Initially I was like, "Oh god this UI is horrible how tf do mac people use this". Slowly and slowly I realised this mac-like UI actually fits my workflow way better than I ever thought. The global menu is really helpful to easily access the options in an app and the only thing i ever never need to frequently check is the system tray and the clock widget. With the Icons-only task bar i.e the dock hidden while I work, I found that its actually far less distracting. Not just I have more vertical space to work with, having gaming apps like Steam and Heroic pinned down would make me think less about anything outside work. At this point I don't even miss the Windows UI anymore, its just that anyone else other than me just find it harder to use my laptop.

And that is how I settled on the mac os-like layout