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Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes

From RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes
Date 2025-01-10 09:27 +0000
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On 2025-01-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 08:53:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>
>> At one point I used Mandrake (I think it was Mandrake, maybe Mandrake's
>> predecessor (?), can't remember).
>
> There wasn't a predecessor. It was originally based on Red Hat but moved 
> away. It must have been 25 years ago but I remember it as a smooth 
> installation on an old Compaq. 

You're right. I guess I confused myself by thinking about what happened 
_after_ Mandrake and Conectiva merged into Mandriva... and then went belly 
up resulting in Mageia and, later, OpenMandriva. But it was definitely 
Mandrake that I installed.

> Speaking of smooth I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 last night. It's not a 
> problem for me but it's still the 6.8.0 kernel. The Fedora box is up to 
> 6.12.8.
>
> It wasn't particularly smooth. I had to manually kill and purge postgres 
> before it would continue, then it failed on Thunderbird when trying to 
> move to a snap. I was able to install it manually afterwards. 
>
> The strangest part was the cleanup where it spent 25 minutes 'searching 
> for obsolete software'. I have no idea what part of darkest Africa it was 
> searching.

My problem with Ubuntu (besides not liking the desktop) is use of Snaps. I 
like to customize Firefox a little and it's easy with a userChrome.css file 
in the chrome directory of your profile directory. But I couldn't figure out 
where to do this on a Snap package. I figured out FlatPaks okay, but Snaps 
seem to be a whole different creature. And I don't like Snaps showing up as 
"partitions" when I do a "df -h" command.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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Linux is the sex doll of OSes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-07 12:06 -0500
  Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> - 2025-01-07 12:57 -0500
    Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 08:44 +0000
  Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-07 22:32 +0000
  Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 20:05 -0500
    Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-07 20:39 -0500
      Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 21:02 -0500
        Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-07 21:20 -0500
      Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-07 21:43 -0500
        Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 22:16 -0500
          Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-08 09:13 -0500
            Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 12:18 -0500
        Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-08 09:00 -0500
          Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 08:53 +0000
            Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-09 18:33 +0000
              Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-09 13:44 -0500
              Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 09:27 +0000
      Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-08 08:45 +0000
        Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-08 09:21 -0500
          Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 08:52 +0000
            Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-09 10:17 -0500
              Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 09:17 +0000
                Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-10 09:19 -0500

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