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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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I've set several non-technical people up on Linux and when it's has worked it's only because they used their computers for a few simple things: browsing the web and email, for example. Anyone who a week later called up to ask me to install <some Windows program they just heard about> inevitably did not stick with Linux.

I maintain Linux servers for a living but my main PC at home is Windows because I game. It broke my fucking heart to shell out the $140 or whatever it was to MS for a Win10 license the last time I upgraded my hardware but it was cheap compared to trying to get AAA games to run on Linux. And don't even start on VR headsets.

Arch based distros are my choice for home however. My current go-to is Manjaro, but it's been a few years since I last did any distro hopping.

Ubuntu LTS for servers though.