Windows Alternatives

Good Morning, day, night, whatever,

Rather than updating to Windows 11 I'm considering changing to a different OS. Been a long time since I've used anything else. We used Redhat in college but dang -that was 25 years ago. I've read a little about Linux Mint. Any thoughts or advice? I'm not a tech guru but not a novice either. Would migrating everything over to a new OS just cause frustration? Thanks!

 

Yeah, Linux is about it, they have made a few distros that emulate the Windows look, with some they include Wine to emulate the 'feel' (you can run some Windows apps).
A few known for their GUIs - Zorin (pay/free), winuxos.org (pay/free), PopOS, Mint

Also read: https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/best_linux_distro_windows.html

 

If you used to windows then I would look mostly at Linux Mint.

 

Coming to you now live from Linux. I had a few bugs to work out but so far so good. There is going to be a little getting used to but at least I am not buying a new computer. Thanks for everyone's input.

 

Cinnamon.
Overall I have to say that I am pleased. I haven't done anything with Linux in over 20 years so I will have to re-learn the command line words. But for general computing it's pretty easy. I still have the same Firefox and since most of what I need is in Dropbox it really has been pretty seamless.

 

I agree too many command lines to learn.

FYI it's not good option for gaming. steam in particular has issues.

 

Yes, I've discovered so far that I can do just about everything without opening the Terminal. Which -no offense to any Linux gurus out there, we should be able to do in today's world of computing. Windows 95 is 30 years old.