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Re: [LUG] A pretend rant

 

On 29/12/2020 12:05, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:22:07 +0000
Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Neil,

On 28/12/2020 10:01, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:21:50 +0000
Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have never used conky. Sometimes I wonder at what is included in the
initial installation. I suppose it is the intended users being new to

I've used two distros in my life;  Mandrake and Debian.  I switched to
Debian because Mandrake wouldn't work with the motherboard I owned at
the time.  Since it was a paid for distro, that was a show stopper.
Hence the switch.  I decided to move away from paid for distros.  Hence
Debian.  I realise that's not the only choice available to me, but the
Debian ethos was good, AFAIAC.


Interesting. My first ever distro when I started with Linux was Mandrake. But I don't remember paying for it. I do remember that it became Mandriva, and I moved on.

Neil

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