I was attracted to the fact that it was very, very user-friendly. But I decided to go with Kubuntu for the same reasons you just mentioned. It looks familiar to someone moving from Windows, which is where I was moving from and I had tried other distributions before that. And eventually I came to like the GNOME 2 desktop environment over KDE and that GNOME 2 is what was on the later versions of Ubuntu. So I switched to Ubuntu. But eventually I moved to Linux Mint to get some additional features in Linux and switched to the Cinnamon desktop, which was the default on Linux Mint. And I found myself, though, going back and modifying the Cinnamon desktop to get it to look like and work like GNOME 2. So when I found Ubuntu Mate and that they have a one-button-click setup that switches the Mate desktop environment to exactly what I want, it was an easy choice to stay with the Ubuntu Mate. And I find that most users, like us, switch to what is familiar and then find the power, the security, and (26/38)
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