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Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life

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On 1/13/25 11:56 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/spins
> Fedora is better for Windows converts than, say, Mint?


Hi Vanguard,

Fedroa is the best maintained Linux distro.  It
is the second most used and gaining fast.

As for Mist, and I second it, a colleague wrote me this
over on the Fedora Mailing list:

> 
>> Take a look at MATE
>> https://fedoraproject.org/spins/mate
>> Just simple.  And gets the job done


> Yes, it's what I've been using for many years.  It's so close to being
> the old Gnome, that it's virtually the same.  And it's not just the
> simpleness of how it looks, it doesn't place big demands on the OS.  
> 
> The fancier ones were too much of a drain on resources.  And if you
> were trying to break into the office desktop market, having a release
> that requires an expensive graphic card just ain't gonna fly.
> 
> I've put Mint on a few people's PCs when I've been asked to replace
> Windows with something that doesn't drive them nuts.  They'd heard of
> it, heard good things, so I've done that.  I've shown them my system,
> with Fedora or CentOS running Mate and asked if they'd like something
> the same, and set Mint up with the same kind of desktop.
> 
> I can't stand the usual Ubuntu install.  I can't find where they've
> hidden things.  A friend using it can't multitask, he can't swap
> between browser and something else (he closes the browser to find the
> desktop to start something, then closes that to find the desktop to
> restart the browser), so I wouldn't call it idiot-friendly.  And if you
> went looking for answers on their forum, it was always the blind
> leading the blind.  Trying to do updates was confusing.  Which program
> was the updater?  What's this package manager do?  Why won't it update
> Firefox?  (They, Ubuntu, had blocked Firefox from being updated, you
> had to force it, and had to find out how to do that.)
> 
> So just about any OS has its stupidities in design

I have a VM of both,if you need me look something up
for you.  Ping me on the subject line.

Cut yourself a live USB of Fedroa MATE and check it out.
Fly before you buy:

https://fedoraproject.org/spins/mate

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0patch for W10 end-of-life T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 17:42 -0800
  Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-13 22:09 -0600
    Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-13 21:53 -0800
      Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-14 01:56 -0600
        Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-14 06:48 -0500
          Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-14 11:36 -0600
        Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-15 09:36 -0800
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      Re: 0patch for W10 end-of-life VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-01-14 12:08 -0600

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