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

Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> wrote:

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:

 

I just used rufus to make a USB install drive

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

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

 
I'm climbing into my bunker now. I'm eating the beans.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

I'd recommend one of the Ubuntu LTS (longterm support) variants. Great
community and fully supported for five years. The std Ubuntu tries too hard
to look like macOS, Xubuntu is nice and lightweight and Kubuntu is bit
heavier but cleaner that ubuntu

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?

Hundreds. But only a dozen mainstream ones.