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Linux for a Windows & Android person (Advice needed)
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Uh, I don't have a good answer for that, but I'd give them something like Linux Mint anyways. That way they can look up stuff, watch tutorials and don't have a super niche thing running. Or give them one of the popular gaming distros, if it's that.
Idk. Gnome feels very much like Android to me. And KDE follows similar design patterns to Windows. And kids and teenagers tend to figure out all the things they want. If they have the motivation to do so.
Semantics but gnome and kde were there first. It is android that looks like gnome and windows that looks like kde.
Hmmh. And it's not even a linear progression. They take inspiration all the time. I remember gnome 2 being very different from what it is today. And they tend to look at MacOS.
Fair point.
KDE was started in 1996 and the first release was in 1998. Windows 95 was released in (surprise!) 1995.
That has nothing to do with windows 10 looking like kde.
Oh, you're talking about Windows 10 specifically then? I took it you meant generally.
KDE has looked and mostly (yay workspaces!) worked like Windows since the first version. I remember I was there.