This distro has made it very easy for me to be able to switch between windows and linux applications with ease. It has a nice interface, that I have been able to customize to my liking. The only issue I have had was installing some software, such as VirtualBox and Wine, but all in all it works great! There are many different flavors of Linux out there, so it's hard to choose which one you want to try. There is no downside to trying this distro. Once I figured everything out, it was extremely easy to switch back and forth between windows and Linux programs. I use this mostly to access my email through gmail, and it does just that!