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5 best Windows-like Linux desktop environments for a familiar look and feel

Now, Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment of Linux Mint, which is generally the best distro for experiencing it.

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great

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The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux

If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the years, there’s a reasonable chance that Windows 8’s Metro start ...
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Linux blows away Windows for multitasking. Here’s a guide to the tools

The Linux desktop offers versatile possibilities for optimizing window management, making it an effective tool for multitasking. With window lists, tiling methods, virtual desktops, and active corners ...

What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32

There are quite a lot of layers to unpack behind the ideas in the Loss32 proposal. The name is, of course, a pun on the name of the original Windows native API, Win32. The name "Loss," and the project ...