One other thing to keep in mind is the various frontends for Linux. KDE is arguably the most Windows-like and definitely the most resource consuming, with Gnome and xfce being more GEOS-like if you remember and liked it on the C64 and Apple II. LXDE is something of a fish-nor-fowl interface, being somewhere between Windows and GEOS.
And then there's Unity, which is being pushed by Canonical. I'm not a big fan; it still lacks what I'd consider basic features and feels like it was rushed into release early.
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