[TriLUG] Most Windows-like Distro?

[Chess Griffin]

Magnus wrote:
> Tim Jowers wrote:
>> A friend wanted to know what distro looks the most like Windows. Any ideas?
>> He wants _exactly_ like Windows if possible.
> 
> There was someone who spoke in front of TriLUG years ago and presented a
> desktop environment that looked almost exactly like Windows.  It really
> had a lot of promise for users like this.  Unfortunately his motivations
>  required a proprietary license for the software so it was not released
> as an open source project and I think it is probably gone now.  I cannot
> for the life of me remember the name of the desktop or the fellow who
> created it... maybe someone can help me with that.  If I am wrong and
> the project is still around it might be worth looking into.
> 
> KDE can be made to look and feel very much like MS Windows but does not
> come that way out of the box.  With a geek that is comfortable with
> Linux closeby, it would only take a couple of minutes at most to get it
> set up that way.

I seem to recall a distro called "Linux XP" that is made to look very
Windows like.  Have not tried it, though.

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Chess Griffin
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