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Linux. I don’t want “using the computer” to turn into a hobby that I need a computer science degree for.
There's so many options for Linux though. Mint is super beginner friendly and doesn't focus on the terminal. You don't have to set up Arch your first time around.
Thank you for confirming that, yes, we are on lemmy.
Lol, touché.
Which one is "literally just legally distinct windows 10"?
Anything with the KDE desktop!
That's a neat thing about Linux, the look and feel is actually totally separate from the distro. Everyone focuses on distros when really, that's mostly under-the-hood stuff, the look and feel is the desktop environment.
KDE is windows-10-like (out of the box, you can also rearrange the crap out of it, ours is set up more like Mac!) and also happens to be one of the most full-featured desktop environments, so you won't be missing stuff (like HDR support or whatever).
So, a distro with KDE.
Debian is great if you want something that Does Not Break on you. Ever. It will never throw you a curveball with an update. That also means you just won't really get updates very much, outside of a Big Major Upgrade every couple of years. If you're tired of Windows Update screwing with you, Debian's perfect.
Fedora is pretty good if you want the new shinies all the time. Major updates every 6 months. Debian has a bigger appstore and even stuff that isn't in there often provides .deb packages, which Fedora can't run, but it's not a huge deal.
Mint doesn't have a convenient KDE version (but you can install KDE after the fact). It has its own desktop called Cinnamon. More Windows 7 vibes. It's based on Debian so you get the Debian compatibility, as well, and they put work into making sure you have GUI apps for stuff like installing drivers (Debian you might need a terminal command or three during initial setup).
There's also immutable distros like Bazzite, which is basically SteamOS But Desktop. It also comes with similar restrictions to SteamOS, though. Good for an Appliance Computer, an absolute fucking pain if you ever need to install drivers/VR stuff/other system software or what-have-you. I'd avoid for your main computer.
-- Frost
It looks like debian with KDE would be worth looking at. How do I obtain this?
Edit: Oh it's free, I just googled it and it came up.
My least favorite thing about Linux is that I can't pirate it