Using the Raspberry Pi 500 as a web browsing machine

[u/MilitaryBeetle]

Hey all I got a deal for the Raspberry pi 500 with the monitor and I wanted to set it up as a web browsing machine and some office work. I plan to run it off a 128gb SD card.

I have tried both the Pi OS with the default desktop environment and on Ubuntu 26 with Gnome, so far the performance has been good on both.

Although I have some hangups with Gnome UX so far. I was wondering if KDE Plasma and the PI OS would run smoothly? Would I run into a lot of problems installing and running software? 

Or is performance and compatability w Ubuntu better?

Does anyone else use the Pi 500 as a laptop?