Yeah, the price is extreme. This device is clearly aimed at the very early adopters with more money then sense.
I myself am interested in VR, but have yet to buy one. I am still waiting for a perfect headset with good screen and controls for a affordable price.
Affordable price for me is around 500 bucks. I am not shelling out 1k or more for something that I sometimes use or even less when the newness wears off.
When I switched over permanently at the release of proton, I went with Cinnamon since it was the most familiar to me. Before that I tried Ubuntu in the past.
After 2 years on Cinnamon I switched over to KDE Plasma since I want more tweakability and customization and Cinnamon and Gnome in general is just severely lacking in that regard.
And it was a good choice as well since KDE has a lot of options to tweak and I can make it look how I want. I also love fluid animations and KDE has that in spades together with early and now very stable Wayland support.
I could not be happier and I don’t see any reason to ever switch to another GUI.
Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!