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Didn't try yet but might be a good way for ppl changing from windows to Linux - what do you think about?

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it's even more "easy" in it's presentation, the visuals are polished, it has a full windows like start menu, both on gnome and xfce, the theme config is clean and barebones, the choice of desktop configs with the bars and menu is reduced to like 6 choices, and little details like that to make it feel like a professionally made os, meaning it's only use is for people with no idea of what and os is, it's a little better at that than even mint, it does make it pretty shitty if you want to learn to use linux since many layers of simplicity are added on top of an otherwise full featured desktop