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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I honestly felt the same way the other user felt. I tried using a few distros and they all felt clunky and the UI was inferior to windows. Sorting through apps felt bad, the file explorer looked bad and lacked a lot of features, the UI itself felt clunky and disorganized. Windows is crap, and I'm sure there's some distro + desktop environment + file explorer combo out there that would make me feel at home, but honestly I've never found it. 

I'd like to find it if anything else to know that I have a ship to fall back to if I ever get too pissed at Windows for some reason, if you have any recommendations I'll check them out. Primarily, my concern is how basic usage *feels*. Windows may lag and look inconsistent at times but all the distros I used felt *worse* when measured by the same metrics. I'd also like the UI to look like it's modern and minimal without looking like it was designed by 14 years old me who just discovered their favorite software had a "skin" option hidden in the settings.

I'm sure plenty of people will point out that modern Windows UI looks ugly af, and sure I can agree it's not perfect, but it subjectively beats everything else I used on Linux so far..
gpt
Pretty much like other Linux users are saying here, KDE Plasma is typically where most Windows users feel most at home at. And it's a great DE independent of that anyway. I also agree with some of them that Ubuntu's foray into trying to develop and maintain their own DE's fell flat on it's face as well. Unfortunately it was always recommended as the 'go to' for beginners. My personal opinion is that I don't like Ubuntu or its children.

Fedora KDE Spin or Nobara KDE IMO would be a better choice. Just make sure to enable 3rd party repositories on Fedora so you can get nvidia's closed source drivers if you use nvidia GPUs  and some more codecs.