The three “normal” suggestions are:

• Mint - https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
• Pop!_Os - https://pop.system76.com/ ; and
• Bazzite - https://bazzite.gg/

You may want to also post this to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

That’s gross.

x380 for the 2 in 1 gimmick!

You may be looking for a “dock” instead of a “panel”.

Plank is a popular/common one, I do not have any recommendations for you though

I agree that it’s not the year of the linux desktop, and that people who think it is are very naive, but you don’t need to tell anyone to use the terminal for anything for many distros.

I didn’t see where the author brought up gender in this article.