I second the heads up on Linux Mint, it is a great place to start and is very civilized these days. I am running KDE plasma as the desktop environment as opposed to cinnamon though.
KDE allows complete flexibility to build your own work flow and the application launcher is like the windows start button should have been. It's very intuitive and user friendly and instantly finds anything you could want on the system.
With KDE you could have 12 task bars distributed on every edge of 3 monitors, all different. You could have a start button 1/2 the size of the screen right in the middle of it. It is totally customizable and reconfigurable with global themes that put anything else I have seen to shame with respect to the sheer volume of them and how radically they change the look of the entire system.
Qwant or Yandex (whatever) how to install KDE plasma as a desktop environment after the install of Linux Mint Cinnamon and you will be one smiling motherfucker.
This is good info, thanks! I am dead serious about the switch so now I have a good place to start from.
I second the heads up on Linux Mint, it is a great place to start and is very civilized these days. I am running KDE plasma as the desktop environment as opposed to cinnamon though.
KDE allows complete flexibility to build your own work flow and the application launcher is like the windows start button should have been. It's very intuitive and user friendly and instantly finds anything you could want on the system.
With KDE you could have 12 task bars distributed on every edge of 3 monitors, all different. You could have a start button 1/2 the size of the screen right in the middle of it. It is totally customizable and reconfigurable with global themes that put anything else I have seen to shame with respect to the sheer volume of them and how radically they change the look of the entire system.
Qwant or Yandex (whatever) how to install KDE plasma as a desktop environment after the install of Linux Mint Cinnamon and you will be one smiling motherfucker.
Plasma looking like windows 7
Plasma goodness
more goodness
Windows is ugly as sin compared to plasma