On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question or two on this. The reason I went with KDE, I use it > and it is closest to being windozeish. On occasion I read where some of > those other "lighter" desktops are 'feature rich' like KDE is. Example, > plug in a USB device and it pops up with a menu to select from a lot > like KDE does. Is LXDE or Mate like that? >
To some degree I'd think Mate would offer this kind of experience. Lightweight options like lxde or xfce are probably going to fall short. Full Gnome or KDE are are probably as close as you're going to get to a Windows-like environment. Another option I'd toss out there is ChromiumOS, though it isn't really intended as a mainstream option on non-Chrome hardware. For $120 a Chromebook is pretty hard to beat, IMO (and a Chromebit or similar solution is even cheaper). That isn't what you're looking for, but when relatives ask me about PC recommendations I tend to lean Chromebook unless they REALLY need to run thick applications, because they're basically zero maintenance and idiot proof. Oh, and they're Gentoo derivatives. :) Nobody seems to be mentioning full Ubuntu - assuming it performs well it should of course be considered as an option as well. I'm all for Xubuntu but it might not be the best fit depending. -- Rich
