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Part of this is about distro selection. I have a decade plus of windows9x, XP, and 7 experience, so I use Lubuntu which works pretty much exactly like they did,

Part of this is about distro selection. I have a decade plus of windows9x, XP, and 7 experience, so I use Lubuntu which works pretty much exactly like they did, and is honestly less surprising/confusing than Windows 10 (I skipped 8.) My understanding is that there are also distros that closely match the mac experience. If you pick up a distro like mainline Ubuntu you might be confronted with potentially confusing new opinions about how desktops should work. I lucked out and tried it back in the Gnome 2 days when it felt like XP.

kitsunesoba 4y ago
There are distros/DEs that get within shooting distance of the Windows experience but don’t quite achieve it. The devil is in the details. There’s nothing that replicates macOS unfortunately. Many point to GNOME, but it’s much more like iPadOS than macOS, or to elementaryOS but it only shares some aesthetics with core features like the global menubar or super-based (as opposed to control-based) key shortcuts being entirely absent. For the latter there’s hacks like Kinto[0] but this is the sort of thing that really needs to be part of the DE. [0]: https://kinto.sh/ https://kinto.sh/
- lnxg33k1 4y ago
  >>> There are distros/DEs that get within shooting distance of the Windows experience but don’t quite achieve it. The devil is in the details. Well, a while ago Ubuntu implemented amazon ads in the start menu