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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'd stay away from that LinuxFX distro. Looks like they enable the execution of .exe and .msi files with wine, which not only would open these new Linux Users to malicious code, but they'll probably get very frustrated when they do what we inevitably know they will do, and try to download a program from a website and install it and find that it doesn't work.

Better to get them something that just looks similar, without trying to mimic everything. They'll learn faster that way and you'll have an easier maintenance overhead.