Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:52:28 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Thu, 29 May 2025 11:02:44 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

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Sadly my newsreader (which is a decades old windows binary running
in wine) doesn't even bother to write to the killfile, so I have to
go without. I thought Usenet would be dead ten years ago so I never
bothered to adapt my finger memory to Thunderbird.

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Why do you need to use something that obsolete? There are lots of
options available on Linux, both GUI and non-GUI.

 
Because all of those options suck and I thought that Usenet would
have died a decade ago.

 
I came back to Usenet because I have fond memories of the time I spent
on it before Google got its sticky fingers into things.
 
I’ve been through a lot of different newsreaders since the 1990s, and
I never really thought any of them “sucked”. I was quite fond of
KNode, but that’s dead now. I have my Usenet account settings
configured into both Claws (which I use for email) and Pan. I mainly
use Pan right now (with Emacs to help with message composition in some
complex cases), maybe I should spend more time trying Claws for news
... or even Emacs itself ...