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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: The entire history of GuhNoo/FOSS/Linux hobbyware in 3 words
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vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 9 Jun 2024 23:46:45 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:36:15 -0400, Joel wrote:
>> 
>>> I just want a platform that is consistent, Winblows really isn't that,
>>> it's ever-evolving, too quickly, dead-ending machines version-wise.
>>> Linux doesn't do that.  I *could* still be using my old computer,
>>> today,
>>> it's nice to have this one, but I had that thing running Mint very
>>> well,
>>> just before its retirement.
>> 
>> I think Fedora is trying to catch up. I'd not updated for a couple of
>> days and yesterday was 535 packages with a 1.3 GB download. Looking at
>> the packages I get the impression Plasma 6, Qt 5, and Wayland aren't
>> playing too well together.
>> 
>> If Glorious Eggroll is trying to work his nobara magic on Fedora 40 he
>> may have his work cut out for him. If it was my main machine I would
>> have waited a few months before upgrading from 39. I'm definitely not
>> jumping to Ubuntu 24 for a while.
>
> One of your login session options for Fedora should
> be KDE with X11.

Nah, Fluxbox or some similar WM.

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