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For all your OS X coming to Linux, a word of personal advice. Use a distro with KDE, Kubuntu is great for beginners and install ubuntu-make (https://wiki.ubuntu

by macco 10y ago

For all your OS X coming to Linux, a word of personal advice. Use a distro with KDE, Kubuntu is great for beginners and install ubuntu-make (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make), a command line utility that installs your dev environment. If you feel a bit more adventurous and want the all of the newest Software try Manjaro-KDE. Why KDE? KDE has a traditional Desktop experience, that can be tweaked in every way. It is much more polished and all the other Linux desktops and it uses Qt5 as it's base - so the team doesn't need to develop the widget toolkit and can focus on the desktop. Lastly gtk apps look much better in KDE than Qt apps in Gnome. BTW: I was a long time Unity and then Gnome user, so I know what I am talking about. I switched to KDE this summer and never looked back.

aruggirello 10y ago
If I recall correctly, Kubuntu was the reference KDE platform when Plasma 5 made its debut (two years ago). Nowadays, it seems Fedora leads the way, but Kubuntu is a great choice nonetheless. BTW I'm using Kubuntu 16.04.
more_original 10y ago
The choice of desktop environment is quite a personal matter. I would recommend Gnome 3, which is especially polished on Fedora. The early transition years from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 were rough, and I switched to KDE for this time. KDE was fine, but Gnome 3 has been polished a lot in the last view years. So I switched back to Gnome 3 and never looked back :).
- macco 10y ago
  > The choice of desktop environment is quite a personal matter. Absolutely.