I would settle for mint cinnamon instead, if your PC is reasonably powerful (8GB of RAM and above usually means it's fine), it's a bit more fancy which makes your PC look decent/normal, mate is a bit more "dry"/cheap/(too) old fashioned design bordering on cheap garbage too much That being said it consumes less resources... But if your computer runs fine on cinnamon, then cinnamon is the better choice IMO. I mean it's not like it's going to be the shit you'll have under your nose everyday... >>is there any real learning curve involved? Not really, especially if all you do with your computer is mainstream stuffs such as shitposting, watching videos, make a resume and shit, play with image/video editors, games, stuffs like that This is how you config your desktop theme for instance: https://pic8.co/sh/HmOeJL.png https://pic8.co/sh/nZhMpS.png Pretty windowsih as you can see It's only when you start coding stuffs or want to install special fancy stuffs, that you might need to switch to manual/command line installs for everything, and really that's not the most difficult part when it comes to command line/terminal usage, it's pretty straight forward you have 3 or 4 commands essentially, most of the time ("update"/"install"/"remove" a program and "add a special repository to download from") Other than that particular case, you can just use the appstore and the graphical updater à la windows >>It might be a week or two before I install , what is the best browser to use? I'm happy with firefox