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I know this topic comes up from time to time but haven't seen it in a while. I want to put Linux on a machine and wondered which version/flavor is currently most like Windows?
I have Zorin which is similar to Ubuntu but I hear there are better options.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So you're asking which fake Gucci bag or Rolex watch is nearest to an actual Gucci bag or Rolex watch? 
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I suspect he just compared Microsoft to the Rolex you get offered on the beach in Jamaica! 
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I see Microsoft more as the guy selling the Rolex. Except he doesn't so much sell it to you as he simply rips your current watch off your arm, tosses it in the ocean, then staples a new one to your wrist.
'BUT IT IS NEW, WHY DO YOU NOT WANT IT?'
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If Microsoft was the guy selling the watch, he'd throw away your real Rolex, and staple a Timex in it's place... 
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Or on 7th Avenue in NY. At least, that's where I bought one for my wife. Everything was OK until she took it in to have a new battery fitted. At least, the next two weeks were the most peaceful of a long marriage. She never said a word to me during that time, unless it was to issue an order.
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I think it's highly presumptuous to align Microsoft with Gucci or Rolex. I see them more to be like Target or Walmart.
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I have loved Linux since I put my kids on it and realized that I didn't have to clean up after it every time they went out on the web and the machine caught a virus - it just didn't catch them. That lack of headaches made it a wonderful experience alone, and the kids ended up learning a lot more than if they had had a more commercial system.
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I think you mean:
So you're asking which actual Gucci bag or Rolex watch is nearest to a fake Gucci bag or Rolex watch?
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Keith Barrow wrote: I think you mean:
Then you think wrongly. I refer you to the post of the honourable Windows user forced to endure Linux, below!
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Which Windows-UI would you prefer?
I'd recommend installing Gnome on Ubuntu; if feels more like Win2000 than the KDE does.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Which Windows-UI would you prefer?
2000, XP, 7, 10, doesn't matter too much. Just not the 8 tablet weirdness stuff. 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: I'd recommend installing Gnome on Ubuntu;
Thanks, I'll check it out.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Thanks, I'll check it out.
Yw. The main difference would be the GUI, and the applications available for it. Gnome is older and a bit faster, KDE is more modern.
Next you'd want to install Wine, as it is hard to run Notepad++ without it.
..and if you're going to develop software, do consider WinForms even if it is not native and Gdk looks like the way to go. It is mature, recognizable and palpatable 
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Many people are liking Mint with MATE or Cinnamon for it's familiarity with the standard GUI that most people are familiar with.
I would give that a look.
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None of them are like Windows, that's why they are called Linux.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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None. Seriously. None.
After decades of working on Windows, I'm now porting Windows code to Linux. Linux is a joke and the UIs are even worse. They are like bad versions of Windows 3.1 written by people who've only read how UIs work.
Despite my current architect's love for Debian, I'm using Fedora with LXDE, which is barely tolerable (in the sense that getting stabbed with really thin needles is more tolerable than getting stabbed with knives.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: They are like bad versions of Windows 3.1 written by people who've only read how UIs work.
Couldn't have put it better me sen!
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If I ever use Linux (very seldom) it is only via the console. I just can't handle the UI. Everything is in the wrong place and it is clunky.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Linux is like Acupuncture . . . I like that analogy
Windows is like the death of a thousand cuts . . .
Seriously - I'd go with Mint.
And anyone who criticizes the Linux UI - hasn't used Windows 8.
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None, but BeOS. May it R.I.P.!
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Have you seen Haiku? It's getting quite usable these days!
Er, I can't think of a funny signature right now.
How about a good fart to break the silence?
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Thanks! I might just install it over my Ubuntu netbook.
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Windows.
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