On Friday, August 29th, 2025 at 1:52 PM, CL <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > hope you had a good festival at your national Day. > > Regarding your question for the closest resemblance. > In my opinion and according my comparison between my privat computer > (Debian Trixie) and my business computer (I'm forced to use Windows 11 > here) the closest from point of view of appearance is > > * KDE > * Cinnamon > * Xfce > > But under the hood the differences are big. > > The most supporting features (e.g. GUI-software for configurations) > exists in KDE and Cinnamon. > My personell work horse is XFCE. But I wouldn't recommend it for newbies. > > Also I wouldn't recommend pur Debian for newbies either. In my > experience pur Debian is extremely stable but needs some experiences. > > From this point of view I would recommend Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) or > an Ubuntu flavour (e.g. Kubuntu for KDE). According to my information > from my internet "bubble" Mint is for newbies one of the best choices at > the moment. > > Mint is a second row descendant of Debian. It's derived from Ubuntu > which itself come from Debian. > > But if you can wait a couple of weeks you can try a further Mint flavour > derived directly from Debian. The Mint team just work on a version > called LMDE 7 which try to bypass the Ubuntu step. Hi, I am not a Linux newbie. I believe Debian won't be too difficult for me to use. > > > -- > mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards > > Christian Lorenz > > mailto:[email protected] > --- > > Am 28.08.25 um 20:12 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming: > > > Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > Debian 13 Trixie release notes: > > > > [QUOTE] > > > > The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, KDE > > Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce. > > > > [/QUOTE] > > > > Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 > > > > May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to Windows > > 10 or 11? > > > > By the way, Debian 13 Trixie was released on Singapore's Independence Day / > > National Day on 9 August 2025. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Regards, > > > > Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > > Targeted Individuals Singapore > > GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems > > 29 August 2025 Friday 2.11 AM
