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Like the other user said, KDE is more windows-like and my preference. Regardless, you're using a different operating system and desktop environment. It's going to want to do things in a different way that you're used to. You can wrestle whatever Linux distro you choose to behave more like Windows, but you're better off learning what it does differently and using it how it was intended. That's the biggest issue I see with people switching. They want a Windows copy, but it isn't Windows and shouldn't be expected to be. You had to learn Windows at some point. You'll have to learn Linux and whatever DE you choose.
How do you know that's what it is fundamentally? For Windows that's true, but probably not for Gnome. For KDE I can just install a package with the package manager and it's automatically in the search system. I don't know how it's doing it fundamentally, but it isn't the way Windows does it for sure because it doesn't require me touching it like Windows does.
Again, I have no idea what you're doing or interacting with, so I can't comment directly. For me personally, it works very well without much messing with it, while Windows required a bunch of registry edits and other things to make it work how I wanted. You just have to accept it for what it is and learn how to use it. It will take time to learn how it wants to work, not how you want it to work. It is literally perverse to try to force it to work like Windows instead of learning the new system.
If you've only driven a car, you're probably going to find it rough driving a motercycle like a car. You're best off learning how to drive the motercycle the way it was designed to work.
KDE is almost certainly more your style though. I know I didn't like gnome when I tried it a long time ago. Hopefully KDE fixes your issues, but it's still not Windows and you have to remember that. It will take time to learn how it wants you to use it.