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On 6/26/25 12:30 PM, rbowman wrote:
> I ran a live Linux Mint. It was okay but not different enough that I
> installed it permanently.

I have a qemu-kvm virtual machine set up to read ISO's as
CD-ROM's.  Allow me to run Live ISO's without having to cut
a flash drive.

I had Mist set up in a VM at one time because AnyDesk would
not take a trouble report unless it was on one of their
"supported" machines.  They don't support Fedora.  The symptoms
were exactly the same on their supported stuff.   Now they
could have tested it with their own stuff and reproduced it,
but that would have been too professional of them.

Mint was interesting, but just that.  Too much like a
toy for me.

Last KDE Live I ran, I thought it was pretty well done.
I use MATE and Xfce as I love minimalism in my OS's.
Both do have their issues, but the are rather minor and
easy to work with.

AnyDesk refuses to support Wayland.  Help Wire does, but
Help Wire, although it has some wonderful features, is still
too buggy to use.   AnyDesk seems to slowly be abandoning
Linux support.  It is a shame, as it is a good product
otherwise.