Hello all,

I would like to transition my GF to linux.

To make the switch easy I’ll go for Ubuntu, but what would be the most windows-like desktop ?

Thank you!

Edit : thank you everyone, I’ll go with Mint instead then 👍 Thanks for the help!

  • sun_is_raEnglish
    54·
    1 year ago

    KDE in my opinion but it require more resources than others like Gnome

    • azvasKvklenkoEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Where is that info coming from? To my experience Plasma is even lighter than GNOME, or just a tiny bit more resource hungry than something truly lightweight like XFCE. It doesnt really need powerful computer.

      • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Yeah on modern hardware, resource usage by the DE is negligable compared to what some applications use (for example web browsers, or chromium based apps).

        • azvasKvklenkoEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          300MB of RAM vs 400MB don’t make any difference on even fairly old systems. It might make difference if you try to squeeze your modern Linux distro on 512MB. In that case you might want to just use a window manager and distro with no systemd, something truly minimal like Apline. If we’re talking 4 gigs+, the desktop won’t make much difference anyway. On very old computers modern web browsers will always suck no matter the OS.

          • LeFantome@programming.dev
            1·
            1 year ago

            Agreed. I use older computers a lot and even use a 2008 machine for hours a day because I like the screen and I like where it is in the house.

            I can say that with 8 GB of RAM or more, even older CPUs are quite usable for me. Less than about 6 GB and even basic web browsing is going I get fairly painful.

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        2·
        1 year ago

        KDE used to be quite heavy. I am quite surprised how light it is these days.

        Or maybe it just stayed the same while everything else got heavier.