LinuxMint Cinamon is easy to learn, especially for Windows users.

[Cyberbleuet]

Mint is very easy to configure, with a simple, clear dashboard (control panels) and a very complete application store. In my case, it's the user-oriented distro that doesn't change my Windows habits too much.

 

[dos2unix]

I don't currently use Cinnamon ( I have in the past ).
But I have to admit, it's the most "Windows Like" desktop of all the Linux desktops.

Of course Windows 11, moved away from the more tradition windows menus.

On the flip side, many are glad the Linux isn't "like windows".

 

[ron.alan]

Mint was my first taste of Linux, and made the migration from Windows a piece of cake. But, it seemed to me at the time (somewhere around 2014) that the Mate desktop was most like Windows.

 

[Terminal Velocity]

I use Cinnamon on Debian 11, Someone proposed it to me some years ago when I was moving from Windows. My first impression was that it is sleek and simpler without the deep menus of Windows 10. Now I have used to it, I can't use anything else

 

[bob466]

I've been using Mint Cinnamon for over 9 years now and can say it's nothing like windoze...I don't know why people say this.

 

[Brickwizard]

I don't know why people say this

Bob
I think its the comprehensive point and click menu and minimal need to use the terminal that does it along with an easy on the eye look makes ex Windows users feel more comfortable

 

[bob466]

Some may say a Platypus..

Looks like a Duck but it's nothing like a Duck.

 

[truckerDave]

For me, it's sort of like @Brickwizard said. It's not that Mint is "like" winblows. It's just that it has a winblows "feel" to it. A nice looking UI and most things a novice user will need are easy to find.

 

[APTI]

I personally find that windows UI is clunky and makes things hard to find at times. So any linux DE that is windows like gets the same review from me. If I find I have to use the terminal for something often I tend to write a wrapper program with a nice GUI. I even made one that can dynamically do this and make things a single button press. I am big on Gnome and most things have extensions that can do what you would in terminal. Before you go off on installing all kinds of extensions and wrapper programs, I have it all scripted so installing fedora with gnome is simple and automated installing extras and extensions for me in a single command.
But as I said that is my personal preference.

 

[davinci74]

Mint is very easy to configure, with a simple, clear dashboard (control panels) and a very complete application store. In my case, it's the user-oriented distro that doesn't change my Windows habits too much.

Hello Cyberbleuet, can I ask you something? Every time you make a post do you have to copy/paste your device info or is there a way to have it automatically appear on your post when you make a comment? Thanks

 

[Brickwizard]

Hello Cyberbleuet, can I ask you something? Every time you make a post do you have to copy/paste your device info or is there a way to have it automatically appear on your post when you make a comment? Thanks

This is in the signature option [see mine below]
left-click on your screenname on the right of the blue bar, select signature and click open, and type away, hit enter wnen finished

 

[davinci74]

Bob
I think its the comprehensive point and click menu and minimal need to use the terminal that does it along with an easy on the eye look makes ex Windows users feel more comfortable

This is in the signature option [see mine below]
left-click on your screenname on the right of the blue bar, select signature and click open, and type away, hit enter wnen finished

I was just about to contact you to let you know i figured it out I think. If it's there on this post, then success!!!!

 

[Egzoset]

Yes, it's a must have and that's why i got it on my Dull NoteBook - besides being compatible with my YUMi-exFAT external USB drive... But i'm afraid no Linux spin comes out of the box ready for its 15.6 inches display: all required my to fiddle with graphic adjustments including those of FireFox, etc., a lame aspect of the setup experience actually shared by Windows 1x as well.