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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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Oh I am totally in agreement - the idea is to introduce an alternative without also too much friction.

It's more like contextual UI actions: right-click, drag and drop, etc.. functions that MS has as their sort of UI ingrained, while linux can vary throughout flavors.

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Yep. XFCE doesn't do anything too weird there. It's more of a project to provide people's expectations rather than a design project to do something unique. It's very very boring and does things in an MS way.

It can be a feature short here or there (not much), but 98% of it is there, and that 98% that is there is organized the way you would expect it.

When you install XFCE directly it comes under configured. If you use Artix or Manjaro you are going to get an arch system with everything pre-installed, including the XFCE configured correctly out of the box. So really the first question is if you like debian or arch for yourself. If debian I would go with Mint. It's also a sane desktop. If arch then you ask if you personally like OpenRC or SystemD. If openRC then Artix, systemD->Manjaro.