Than Plasma? Maybe not. Than classic KDE, lxqt, Mate, or Gnome... absolutely. I found them to be unpleasant, harder to use, and just a bit wrong in a way that makes me ill.
And while plasma is generally decent, it suffers from the same awful system controls as the rest. Not better than the new Windows settings, far worse than the classic Control Panel. I suspect that is because the design ethos is still has, at its heart, "well, just open a terminal and type nano /etc/...". Or, maybe it's because linux is still a hodgepodge of different projects that don't share a common aesthetic.
And so far, I've hated all the file managers. Nautilus? Garbage. Thunar? Crap. Dolphin? Worthless. Double Commander? Twice the uselessness. Krusader looks like it might be worth trying, but it's not what you get by default in any distro I've used.
And that's another problem. I don't want to hear about how customizable a desktop is, I have other things to do. The typical end user won't understand how to do it, and if they try, they will be paralyzed by the paradox of choice (I know what I'm doing and don't want to wade through it all, they'll throw up and run away). In a government setting, they won't even have that option, it'll be the preferences of someone in IT.
And I like Linux. I want to use it more and like it more. But damn, it is f-ing ugly.