Re: Linux is the sex doll of OSes

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.

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.