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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How do home users of linux protect themselves against ill-advised changes?
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:20:42 +0000
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On 05/01/15 16:16, notbob wrote:
> 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
>

For one, if it's your job, you should look at other distros from time to 
time.