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On 6/25/25 9:39 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:02:00 -0700, T wrote:
> 
>> On 6/25/25 5:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Another daily-diary article, this time trying out a few Linux distros
>>> that might offer a less painful transition for Windows users
>>> <https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-im-
> testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-from-
> the-landfill>.
>>>
>>> A lot of the time, it seems to me, the hardest step for a Windows user
>>> is copying a bootable Linux image (either live OS or installer) onto a
>>> USB stick. What would be a quick, easy job on Linux itself requires a
>>> fair bit of faffing about with third-party tools on Windows.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/spins KDE, MATE, and Xfce are all great.
>> gnome is too weird to be usable.
>>
>>
>> There are two easy ways to burn a flash drive with a Linux ISO from
>> Windows:
>>
>> Rufus Web Site:
>>
>>       https://rufus.ie/ https://rufus.akeo.ie/
>>
>> Fedora Media Write for Linux and Windows:
>>      https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download
>>
>> Fedora is less complicated.   You will notice when running that it calls
>> some libraries from Rufus
> 
> I don't remember the details but Fedora Media Write didn't work for me and
> I wound up using rufus. I would not call it 'a fair bit of farfing
> around'.
> 

Fly before you buy!

Did you try KDE?