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If you're looking to move from Windows, you have options.
Zorin OS and AnduinOS both have the look and feel of Windows.
Both of these distributions are free to download and install.
If you ask any Linux user what distribution is best to use if you're moving from Windows, you'll get a cornucopia of answers: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Fedora… the list goes on.
From my perspective, there are two particular distributions that bubble up to the top of the heap: Zorin OS and AnduinOS.
Similar names, but strikingly different takes.
Both of these distributions are based on Ubuntu, which makes perfect sense for a newbie-friendly distribution. However, what they do to Ubuntu is quite different from one another.
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