Hello, hope you had a good festival at your national Day. Regarding your question for the closest resemblance.In my opinion and according my comparison between my privat computer (Debian Trixie) and my business computer (I'm forced to use Windows 11 here) the closest from point of view of appearance is
* KDE * Cinnamon * Xfce But under the hood the differences are big.The most supporting features (e.g. GUI-software for configurations) exists in KDE and Cinnamon.
My personell work horse is XFCE. But I wouldn't recommend it for newbies.Also I wouldn't recommend pur Debian for newbies either. In my experience pur Debian is extremely stable but needs some experiences.
From this point of view I would recommend Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) or an Ubuntu flavour (e.g. Kubuntu for KDE). According to my information from my internet "bubble" Mint is for newbies one of the best choices at the moment.
Mint is a second row descendant of Debian. It's derived from Ubuntu which itself come from Debian.
But if you can wait a couple of weeks you can try a further Mint flavour derived directly from Debian. The Mint team just work on a version called LMDE 7 which try to bypass the Ubuntu step.
-- mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards **Christian Lorenz** mailto:cl.debian.mailing@t-online.de --- Am 28.08.25 um 20:12 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming:
Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments Good day from Singapore, Debian 13 Trixie release notes: [QUOTE] The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce. [/QUOTE] Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809 May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to Windows 10 or 11? By the way, Debian 13 Trixie was released on Singapore's Independence Day / National Day on 9 August 2025. Thank you. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals Singapore GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems 29 August 2025 Friday 2.11 AM