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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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On 12/6/24 2:40 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> I have always maintained that in spite of all the "easy"
> distros that strive to bring GNU/Linux to the masses
> it will always remain a fringe OS that is used only by
> a specialist minority.


Yes. It is actually for scientists, if you ask me.

I read an amazing article about Gentoo a year or so back and it showed 
how it suited a scientist's desires to fine tune it to anything he wants.

I can't find that article now. I even printed it and I cannot find those 
printed pages :) Hehe :)

But a computer scientist should be able to create a distro with it that 
would work for anyone in the world. But they have not so far allowed 
general public to access anything better than adndroid for that purpose.

If there was a distro of linux for computers that would make installing 
programs as easy as it is on android phones, then Windows would get 
forgotten fast.