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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop
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Date: 26 Jun 2025 06:53:30 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:56:30 -0700, T wrote:

> 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?

Yes, I'm running the KDE Fedora. When I installed it it was a spin but now 
it's a full fledged version. Fedora has worked out well and I knew what I 
was getting into but it's not a distro if you don't like updating it 
frequently.

$ dnf history list
ID Command line            Date and time       Action(s) Altered
65 dnf update              2025-06-26 06:37:18                24
63 dnf update              2025-06-25 04:45:02               152
62 dnf update              2025-06-24 00:55:03               118
61 dnf update              2025-06-19 21:53:46               431
60 dnf update              2025-06-13 05:40:12                54
59 dnf update              2025-06-11 19:31:51               106
58 dnf update              2025-06-10 04:09:00                60
56 dnf update              2025-06-08 03:55:24               384
55 dnf update              2025-06-06 07:18:00                94
54 dnf update              2025-06-01 06:21:12                96

Ubuntu is nowhere that intense.