Every DE apart from GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cosmic and a couple of obscure tiling WMs is still based entirely on X11. We are still a very long distance away from abandoning X11.

Yes, many of the very good ones really are just philanthropic contributions driven only by the site authors’ interest and charity.

Ubuntu because you literally need zero setup and customization to get going after a fresh install. Everything is silently built in and everything just works.

aether.bar, with the extension + febbox token

Using XLibre is an option, as is using anything in the Linux world.