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Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children
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On 25/05/2025 12:01, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> On your link, I agree only with Mint. I never used it, but it's well
> spread. I was surprised when installing it on someone else computer,
> when I installed other WM/DE they all look the same. It's weird, but I
> can understand Mint want all WM/DE to look the same. As it's well
> spread, it's easy to find help for it.

Mint is probably the widest installed distro these days. Because they 
made it an easy install.

Yes, out of the box it looks a lot like Windows XP.

But many people say that was their favourite Windows DE and that 
Microsoft 'got it right'

I have modded it to be slightly OS/X like.

It's stable, has all the apps I need.  Support with its Ubuntu base is 
excellent by and large.

There are minor irritations. But I can live with them


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“when things get difficult you just have to lie”

― Jean Claud Jüncker