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What's the best Linux distro for Windows users?

What Linux distros would you suggest for the users looking to migrate from Windows? It's best if you could suggest something similar UI/UX-wise.

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PRABHAT KUMAR

Pop os and manjaro best choice.

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muhinda

Pop os or ubuntu

Elementary OS

Linux mint

And lastly ubuntu budgie

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Jamelle Boose

Ubuntu.

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Md. Manzum Rahman

Linux Manjaro is good enough

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Alex Cameron

Deepin Linux and zorin

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Khushal Jangid

Elementary OS : The cleanest, lightest , User Friendly distro based on Debian.

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The Afroprogrammer

linux mint or ubuntu

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Debarka Mondal

Use garuda and thanks me later

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Alen Abraham

Trying ZORIN OS will also be a great experiment
The user interface of zorin is super awesome
I was a windows user and now I am slowly shifting to linux by starting with zorin.

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Reinhart Previano K. • Edited

For starters I generally recommend Ubuntu or Fedora-based operating system with KDE, for example Kubuntu or KDE Neon. Here's a screenshot of my desktop running KDE Plasma 5.19.5 on Ubuntu 20.04.

Desktop screenshot

However, if you feel that you have a less-powerful machine (e.g. those without dedicated GPUs) I usually recommend XFCE-based Ubuntu distros such as Xubuntu and Linux Lite.

I usually don't recommend Debian-based distros, except some such as MX Linux. Since Debian highly focuses on stability rather than frequent feature updates, some software in their repository may not be as updated as those in Ubuntu, including WINE (winehq-stable) which allows some Windows (.exe) programs to work under Linux. However, there is a workaround for this by manually adding new package sources/repository on APT.

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Raghavan alias Saravanan Muthu

Ubuntu to start with and get a hang of linux.

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Anish De

Zorin OS as it offers similar features to Microsoft's your phone app and also looks like Windows with the ability of further customisation.

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Tushar Tyagi • Edited

I would recommend Arch based distros if not vanilla Arch. Use EndeavourOS or manjaro. As for Desktop Environment in terms of fimilar UX/UI, KDE is your best choice but it will require heavy customization but in the end it would be worth it. If you prefer something aesthetically pleasing out of the box, then go for Deepin (but last time I checked it was little buggy in other OSes).
Also, I would recommend PopOS over Ubuntu.

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Robert Hernandez

Ubuntu recommended

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Major Private Parts

I came across KDE neon recently. Love it so much, it even replaced most win Workstations of mine