I use a KDE derivative, FerenOS. To me personally, KDE has the right amount of customizability and ease-of-use but for the record, I did try out Mint, Zorin OS, Stock Ubuntu, Vanilla OS, Deepin, Pop!_OS, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Nitrux, Elementary OS, Puppy Linux and pretty much all of the Linux distros under the sun. KDE was what I like best. Source: about 1 year ago

There's also Feren OS, which is a combination of Linux Mint's Cinnamon and KDE. It's a distro out of the UK. Source: over 1 year ago

Try Feren OS. It's made with windows users in mined and has a Windows 11 Layout. And I think there is a layout called classical which might be what you want as far as the feel. Source: over 1 year ago

I've tried to like Gnome, but I find it a hassle to rebuild things to work the way I want it (nevermind the worry that when things updates, I have to wait and recheck many of the extensions to update or if things breaks). I really recommend trying out more customized KDE experience like Feren, Garuda, or Xero. You may find a UX you like, and then you can just use that as basis with other distro that suits your... Source: over 1 year ago

I've had similar issues and can't recommend FerenOS enough: https://ferenos.weebly.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

& https://github.com/kisslinux 4. https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ 5. https://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/index.html .. Many more, but those are all too distro-specific, meaning 'family' and associated administration and packaging tools, default choices for desktop-environment, and whatnot else. Which teaches you almost nothing about 'Linux', but the specific choices of that 'distribution', and all the baggage... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Maybe try installing a different distro, as it could be an issue with the installer. EXE GNU/Linux is very similar to Q4OS Trinity, alternatively there's antiX, for example. You would at least be able to see if it's a general problem or just one installer. Source: 6 months ago

You should probably try this https://antixlinux.com/. Source: 8 months ago

AnitX is a sibling distro of MX that is specifically for older, slower computers. It still has the MX suite of GUI tools and some other benefits you get with MX, however. Source: 11 months ago

I received a laptop from 2003 recently that I turned into a little white noise machine. I couldn't get ANYTHING else to run on it besides Antix Linux. Source: 12 months ago