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User experience

The focus of this Roundup is to identify a distribution that’s best suited for newbies. We are looking for an option that’s easy to use, while still offering users a chance to learn and enjoy themselves horsing around. This, we feel, is the key for any distribution looking to retain and attract novice users.

By a quirk of fate, and admittedly deliberate deviousness in selecting the KDE edition of Manjaro, our selection of distributions has provided us with five different desktop environments. Each of these comes with

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