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I personally love linux and have used many distros for quite a while. I think one of my favorites for just all around anything would have been CrunchBang... Anyways, the wife and kids aren't (yet) into being trained on how to use linux, so I was thinking of trying one of the flavors that most mimics Windows.

I found: LinuxFx. Has anyone used this?

The other option was likely something like Mint with the Mate shell- there are a few Windows 10 themes that make it closer.

INB4: yes, they will eventually be learned in linux of some sort, meaning they'll understand the UI differences.

EDIT: I went with Mint 20 - XFCE. We've used Mint before, they know it fairly well and it is easy enough to troubleshoot.

I personally love linux and have used many distros for quite a while. I think one of my favorites for just all around anything would have been CrunchBang... Anyways, the wife and kids aren't (yet) into being trained on how to use linux, so I was thinking of trying one of the flavors that most mimics Windows. I found: LinuxFx. Has anyone used this? The other option was likely something like Mint with the Mate shell- there are a few Windows 10 themes that make it closer. INB4: yes, they will eventually be learned in linux of some sort, meaning they'll understand the UI differences. EDIT: I went with Mint 20 - XFCE. We've used Mint before, they know it fairly well and it is easy enough to troubleshoot.

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SalientOS. Its an arch based distro.

Most everything one would want for gaming and streaming is pre installed in the distro. Things like steam, lutris, and OBS studio are just waiting for you to run and config them for first use.

Its been pretty rock solid stable since I've been running it for about a year now.

So many things just work.

As for the theme, well pretty much any distro can be made to look like Win 10. The real question is which do you want them to learn first.