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Subject: Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes?
Date: 5 Jan 2015 16:16:11 GMT
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On 2015-01-05, Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> wrote:

> Nice if you stick with a distro.

.....as opposed to changing distros every 10 mins?  

I've never understood the attraction of playing discover-a-distro.  Debian,
screwbuntu, Mint, Centos, Mageia, blah blah......

Seems like it would be better to learn how to change a single distro to do
what you want rather than looking at what everyone else has done to
their distro to see if it's for you.  

nb --one distro, 13 yrs