> all the major distros default to GNOME If your definition of major distros is limited to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, then probably. Linux Mint was born out of

> all the major distros default to GNOME If your definition of major distros is limited to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, then probably. Linux Mint was born out of rejecting GNOME, Arch is not opinionated, Manjaro defaults to KDE (although "defaults" here may be a wrong word), SteamOS defaults to KDE, openSUSE defaults to KDE, then there's PopOS...