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Articles on the Duel Between GNU/Linux and Windows, Which Microsoft is Ditching (or Whose Users Get Abandoned)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

ZDNet ☛ 8 most Windows-like Linux distros - if you're ready to ditch Microsoft

Windows 10's end of life is coming in 2025, and that means you have to hope your machine can run Windows 11, buy a new computer, or try something different -- like Linux.

Linux shouldn't be considered a last-choice alternative either, because it's every bit equal to Windows or MacOS. It's reliable, secure, user-friendly, and free. What more do you want?

ZDNet ☛ Zorin OS vs. AnduinOS: How to pick the right Windows-like Linux distro for you

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.

Let's find out which one of these distributions might be right for you.

Radio World ☛ When I Get Stressed, I Just Repeat “Linux” to Myself

I’ve basically been using Fedora Linux for 20 years, and it has never broken on me whether by update or the file system itself. It just works. I could probably set it up for my 80-year-old mother and she’d have no issues navigating it.

In fact, as soon as I wrote those words about Linux, my blood pressure started to go back down and everything in my computer world seems more normal again.