Einar

Came to say this. Has not failed me yet.

Work. Sadly Linux cannot run most Windows Store apps.

And there’s some niche software that runs, but crashes too much for my liking. So unfortunately in these cases: Windows.

Moved family mostly to Zorin. I stay with Tumbleweed.

Keeping Windows on dual boot for some edge cases. For the app or two that doesn’t run with Linux I keep Windows in a virtual machine (which sadly I need once or twice a day).

95% of my daily business runs on Linux.

Now I wish my phone would do that too.

I loved Mint. It’s still great. Recently I installed Linux on a family member’s laptop which is not upgradeable to Windows 11. Hate to say it (and I may be a bit petty here): Mint looks dated, Cinnamon needs a facelift.

That was a reason I went with Zorin. It clearly tries to transition users that come from Windows with it’s design (honestly, it’s modded Gnome looks awesome). Even running .exe files is as simple as just opening them. Zorin will either just run them or suggest a Linux alternative. Had no issues with that OS so far.

That said, Mint or Ubuntu are solid choices for beginners (and pros alike).

I truly hope they don’t retire it until there’s a true successor. Yast is in its own class of admin tools.