strongly recommend Mint I still prefer Mate, but I'm working on liking Cinnamon. Just picky, really Keith Bainbridge keithrbau@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 10/12/18 9:58 am, Brian Dobbins via luv-beginners wrote:

Popular/practical distro for windows users - Zorin, Mint, or orher?  Thanks

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Brian Dobbins via luv-beginners wrote:

Popular/practical distro for windows users - Zorin, Mint, or orher? Thanks

There are two key choices here: * which desktop environment --- GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, &c * which distro. Major distros allow you to choose which desktop environment you get. The DE is the part the user will interact with every day, so focus on that. As to which distro, IMO it depends on what you/they are best able to get support for. If your local expert knows Fedora better than Debian/Ubuntu, then choose Fedora. Downstream distros like Mint are MOSTLY just different default DE/theme/wallpaper, so I would focus on Fedora, Ubuntu, or maybe Arch. XFCE and IceWM are similar to XP-era Windows look and feel; I don't know what Linux desktop environment most closely matches Win10/Metro look and feel. GNOME and KDE are by far the most "polished" or "well integrated" DEs; focus on those if you just want the desktop to Just Work, rather than fine-tuning it exactly how you like it.