I’d still manage to magically snag and trip over it.

The bureaucratic kind, one that usually involves a government given pfx, adobe acrobat and some text plus timestamp. Okular can do it if you put your mind to it and waste a lot of time but it’s really involved.

“I can’t digitally sign a pdf without a phd”

In a fascistic enough world where this would matter, people who abstain from the system are automatically flagged to be shot too, just fyi. You gotta also fill the normie services with conformist content to not become a detected anomaly if you really want to do it properly.

My general guidelines would be: Gnome if you’re used to Android, KDE if you’re used to Windows, Cinnamon if you’re used to MacOS, XFCE if your PC is a potato.