I find not just cinnamon but mate and budgie and xfce and lxde all are very Windows friendly. I never understood why cinnamon was always the one people say is for Windows people. Maybe because Windows people are used to crashing. That's the only thing I can think of as to why only cinnamon is usually recomendef
we can say this to Gnome also. Windows guys like Zorin's look & feel a lot, that's Gnome !! Cinnamon Looks good out of the box, unlike XFCE/LXDE cinnamon. I think we can't expect new windows refugees to be comfortable in ricing their DE.
I've been doing lots of distro searching the last few weeks, just debating on upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 or using something newer (on my daily driver). I have a 2nd laptop I use sometimes that I try different distros on for curiosity sake.
Seemingly every list I see has Mint at or near the top for new users. But I think to your point, no, it's not the default recommendation anymore. I guess we're past the point of having one good beginner distro and there are a few good options.
Ya lot of things have changed actually, & distros are more usable & newbie-friendly than ever. Who thought people will suggest Arch-based distro to newbies! Now I do recommend Manjaro!
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I find not just cinnamon but mate and budgie and xfce and lxde all are very Windows friendly. I never understood why cinnamon was always the one people say is for Windows people. Maybe because Windows people are used to crashing. That's the only thing I can think of as to why only cinnamon is usually recomendef
we can say this to Gnome also. Windows guys like Zorin's look & feel a lot, that's Gnome !! Cinnamon Looks good out of the box, unlike XFCE/LXDE cinnamon. I think we can't expect new windows refugees to be comfortable in ricing their DE.
I think it's just that Cinnamon is the default on Mint and Mint is the common disto recommended for new Linux users who are used to Windows.
Is this still true? I haven't seen this recommendation made very often anymore
I've been doing lots of distro searching the last few weeks, just debating on upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 or using something newer (on my daily driver). I have a 2nd laptop I use sometimes that I try different distros on for curiosity sake.
Seemingly every list I see has Mint at or near the top for new users. But I think to your point, no, it's not the default recommendation anymore. I guess we're past the point of having one good beginner distro and there are a few good options.
Ya lot of things have changed actually, & distros are more usable & newbie-friendly than ever. Who thought people will suggest Arch-based distro to newbies! Now I do recommend Manjaro!