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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft: one step forward, one step back
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:40:03 -0000 (UTC)
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 04:02 this Friday (GMT):
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:46:54 -0400, RabidPedagog wrote:
>
>> . No Linux installer forces you into using the cloud.
>
> Well, sort of... Any distro I've installed lately first sets up an 
> internet connection so it can phone home and get the rest of its stuff. 
> The Lubuntu install I did recently was very unhappy with the Broadcomm 
> wifi chip. I had to use a USB wifi dongle to get to the internet to 
> install the Broadcomm driver.
>
> That SiSE 8.1 box set I found in the shed was the good old days. 
> Everything was on the multiple disks in the box.


To be fair, the "full" install is a couple gigabytes more usually. But,
it is just installing packages instead of forcing an account on you.
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