Re: Windows7 / 10 look+feel
FWIW I have experience running this experiment with one wife, with Mint 17. She scarcely noticed, so there's a data point.
Gave an elderly Uncle a copy of Mint on a spare laptop to play with. Less than a week later he'd asked to replace Windows on his desktop as well, he found Mint just so much easier to use than Windows (8.1 as well, although his UI seemed to have difficulty with knowing if it was 8 or .1 sometimes). Did a backup, set it up for dual boot. Few weeks (months?) later he asked for the Windows to be wiped completely as he'd not been using it.
So there's another datapoint (or few, I've given several non-techs Linux and they're happy with how easy their computers are to work after that).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
