>>13871388Anything based off of Debian is pretty comfortable. Ubuntu and Linux Mint being the most popular, but I'd recommend CrunchBang (often written as #!) over any *buntu variant for the most part. They all rely on the Linux kernel and a lot of them are based on Debian (another distribution you could try, but it's pretty bare bones and often out of date with little to no hand-holding)
With Ubuntu they throw things like the software center at you that make things stupidly easy. GNU/Linux doesn't have to be impossible but you should get used to opening a terminal and typing "sudo apt-get install gimp" instead of opening a software center and typing in gimp or scouring the internet for a shady .exe file to install.
I used Windows most of my life but trying out a few distributions of GNU/Linux on the side over the years got me interested. It wasn't until discovered CrunchBang about six months ago that I decided I could finally find a suitable replacement for Windows. I still have Windows 8 on another hard drive in this computer, but I do my daily things on CrunchBang. Windows 8 is there if I want to play games that aren't yet ported to GNU/Linux.
