Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
for Linux and Open Source
| November 17, 2021
| Topic: Enterprise Software
Chrome OS
Easy-to-use, affordable computing without Windows headaches
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Linux Mint
Best-of-breed desktop Linux
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Ubuntu
Simple to use
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Zorin OS
Easier jump from Windows
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MX Linux
Easy-to-learn and lightweight
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Some people still insist that using Linux is hard. Sure, it was difficult — when I started with the Linux desktop back in the 1990s. But that was a long time ago. Today, the easiest desktop of all, Chrome OS, is simply Linux with the Chrome web browser on top of it. The more full-featured Linux desktop distributions are as easy to use in 2021 as Windows or macOS.
Yes, you can get a lot more from Linux if you know how to do shell programming and the like. But that’s also true of Windows and PowerShell. With both operating systems, you don’t need to know the deep ins and outs of either one to get your work done.
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