Switching to the Linux operating system offers convenience and economy. Upgrading to Linux is free, and you can install it on your existing hardware to replace Windows.
Please provide a link to the flavor that mostly acts like Windows 10. I’m legitimately asking because any I’m used to are not plug and play in the slightest. In my experience I spend so much time hunting down how to do the simplest stuff in Windows on Linux and it’s usually a huge chore to accomplish when I do find out how it needs to be done. Like, can I open a text editor with ease? Sure. But I didn’t think the standard of a good OS in 2025 was the same standard as a good OS in 1985. I do a lot more then edit code on my PC. I want to see the Linux flavor that out of the box has at least as much of the functionality I come to expect from Windows without having to spend days configuring. I want the Linux flavor that doesn’t require me to run half my shit through Wine because no one’s made a Linux alternative.
As much as it sucks, if you seriously want to use Linux you’ll have to adjust. It’s not the same system and doesn’t have all the same software. Same thing as moving to Mac. Moving from Android to iPhone or vice versa. If you are unwilling or unable to adjust then that’s fine. But realise that it’s not the OS that’s at fault. Especially when there are people who use it every day.
As someone suggest Zorin, they have worked hard to be a transition system, but if you want true GUI and no command line tinkering try OpenSUSE–everything can be tweaked and configured via the various Yast2 GUI modules.
What are you doing with your machine that would be confusing for your standard end user?
KDE out of the box is good enough for my daily driving. PopOS, Bazzite, and Mint work great. GUI options for most normal computing things you’d do these days.
The amount of customization allowed on an end user’s machine is often minimal anyway.
Plus, you sorta imply that the end user would be doing all this, instead of an IT admin preconfiguring a machine with Ansible or a custom install script.
I think you may be over estimating what your typical business user does. It’s mostly “Here’s my chat, here’s my browser, here’s my 1-5 LOB apps, here’s my printer. Can I change my background to my kids? Great.”
Please provide a link to the flavor that mostly acts like Windows 10. I’m legitimately asking because any I’m used to are not plug and play in the slightest. In my experience I spend so much time hunting down how to do the simplest stuff in Windows on Linux and it’s usually a huge chore to accomplish when I do find out how it needs to be done. Like, can I open a text editor with ease? Sure. But I didn’t think the standard of a good OS in 2025 was the same standard as a good OS in 1985. I do a lot more then edit code on my PC. I want to see the Linux flavor that out of the box has at least as much of the functionality I come to expect from Windows without having to spend days configuring. I want the Linux flavor that doesn’t require me to run half my shit through Wine because no one’s made a Linux alternative.
As much as it sucks, if you seriously want to use Linux you’ll have to adjust. It’s not the same system and doesn’t have all the same software. Same thing as moving to Mac. Moving from Android to iPhone or vice versa. If you are unwilling or unable to adjust then that’s fine. But realise that it’s not the OS that’s at fault. Especially when there are people who use it every day.
As someone suggest Zorin, they have worked hard to be a transition system, but if you want true GUI and no command line tinkering try OpenSUSE–everything can be tweaked and configured via the various Yast2 GUI modules.
https://zorin.com/os/
What are you doing with your machine that would be confusing for your standard end user? KDE out of the box is good enough for my daily driving. PopOS, Bazzite, and Mint work great. GUI options for most normal computing things you’d do these days. The amount of customization allowed on an end user’s machine is often minimal anyway. Plus, you sorta imply that the end user would be doing all this, instead of an IT admin preconfiguring a machine with Ansible or a custom install script. I think you may be over estimating what your typical business user does. It’s mostly “Here’s my chat, here’s my browser, here’s my 1-5 LOB apps, here’s my printer. Can I change my background to my kids? Great.”