Isn’t that only microsoft exclusive and closed source? Also does compiling it really yield the same speed as C, it is garbage collected isn’t it?

I don’t know, I used gnome for a while and I just felt like I was using toy apps. But I think that comes down to personal preference. KDE definitly has the bigger apps like Kdenlive and Krita.

Yes, using them is probably the closest one can get to the macos ecosystem on Linux.

Have you checked out Xournal++ already?

The u-he synths are nice.