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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
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Joel wrote on 6/27/2025 6:08 PM:
> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 6/27/2025 11:28 AM, Joel wrote:
>>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 6/26/25 3:20 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I just used rufus to make a USB install drive
>>>>
>>>> Same thing I do with me W10 customers.  I think
>>>> folks are making too big a deal out of all this.
>>>
>>> And when M$ suddenly and without warning makes it impossible to run
>>> Win11 with unsupported hardware?
>>
>> I'm climbing into my bunker now. I'm eating the beans.
>>
>> Oh no I'm not. I'm running Oracle Linux !!! :-)
>> It has a picture of a bronze statue of an adonis
>> with a goatee on his chin, as the cover art.
>>
>> I'm using a DE, where I have to do a lot of clicking
>> to switch between screen modes, yes I am. I feel
>> free free free!!! And I'm proud of the fact I can't have
>> icons on my desktop. Nasty nasty things, those desktop icons.
>>
>> See, two can play the fud game. Your outcome is just
>> as silly as mine.
> 
> 
> A distro can do weird things, it doesn't mean all others would do the
> same.
> 

How can we weed out the bad distros and only install good distros?  I 
hope it's not a random thing.

And how many distros are there?  Is there a good method to navigate all 
these distros?  Maybe something like a distro explorer, or distro browser?