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In the process of fixing the samba networking issue, I followed some esoteric instructions in APT as instructed, and was told by the terminal: "This Apt has Super Cow Powers!" which was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I don't think windows ever gets Super Cow Powers. I don't know what it means, but I'll be laughing about it for years to come.

Not as much as the well know M$ Windows' "Out of Body Experience" thingy though.... you know the OOBE screens.

The current OOBE screens were unofficially referred to as "Out of Body Experience" -Back in the days- instead of the current more stern/official "Out of Box Experience"

As for the thread's topic, my advice is Fedora with the GNOME Display Manager using wayland as display server protocol (instead of the X display manager.)

PS:
To me there are 3/4 kinds of Linux distros, the RedHat-based, the Debian-based, the Gentoo-based and another one that I'm not recalling right now... Thus if you're using Ubuntu or Mint or any other Debian forks, then you're essentially a Debian-guy; if you're using RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, Mandriva etc.. then you're a RH-guy and so on and so forth... The flavour changes slightly but the fundamentals remain the same within those classes. But as long as you're using a Linux distribution -ANY distribution- then the philosophy IS the same; i.e. DON'T ASK YOUR DISTRIBUTION TO BE A M$'S WINDOWS LOOK-ALIKE.. although many desktop distros have fallen in that trap (because they are craving for novice users adoption; its a popularity contest in a saturated market.)

To me, Ubuntu was the first sinner in that regard... the other late comers to the Linux Desktop arena are working hard to dethrone it popularity-wise among novices...

My 2 cents!

Edited:
The missing class that I was looking for was Slackware-based distros, forks of the Slackware original distro. It didn't stick in my memory because I never used it.