I've been using Ubuntu for couple years and it's good; just download and install Ubuntu Server not Ubuntu Desktop, then enable GUI, very easy since Ubuntu Server already have Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and after enable GUI, it will look similar to Win, of course not completely but you know what I meant
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