Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

Joel wrote on 6/27/2025 6:08 PM:

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 6/27/2025 11:28 AM, Joel wrote:

T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 6/26/25 3:20 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

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I just used rufus to make a USB install drive

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Same thing I do with me W10 customers.  I think
folks are making too big a deal out of all this.

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And when M$ suddenly and without warning makes it impossible to run
Win11 with unsupported hardware?

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I'm climbing into my bunker now. I'm eating the beans.
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Oh no I'm not. I'm running Oracle Linux !!! :-)
It has a picture of a bronze statue of an adonis
with a goatee on his chin, as the cover art.
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I'm using a DE, where I have to do a lot of clicking
to switch between screen modes, yes I am. I feel
free free free!!! And I'm proud of the fact I can't have
icons on my desktop. Nasty nasty things, those desktop icons.
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See, two can play the fud game. Your outcome is just
as silly as mine.

  A distro can do weird things, it doesn't mean all others would do the
same.
 

How can we weed out the bad distros and only install good distros?  I hope it's not a random thing.
And how many distros are there?  Is there a good method to navigate all these distros?  Maybe something like a distro explorer, or distro browser?