From: nospam.Dan.Clough@f1.n770.z4299.fidonet.org   
      
   -=> Mike wrote to Al DeRosa <=-   
      
    AD> LOL Me too, I played with it back in the day but never went forward..   
    AD> Ubuntu is great for beginners but so is Mint. ;)   
      
    Mi> I'm a former slackware and gentoo user. I use mainly Debian for   
    Mi> my servers and and PopOS as my desktop.   
      
    Mi> Why, because most packages in the wild have a .deb build.   
      
    Mi> Also, I like to focus on stable releases vs rolling releases.   
    Mi> Just don't have the energy to troubleshoot rolling releases. Back   
    Mi> in my day, sure..... No kids, no responsiblities, etc....   
      
   Just for clarification... Slackware is not a rolling release.  Many   
   would consider it the very definition of "stable".  It's also not really   
   a great choice for beginners, since that is sort of the topic of this   
   thread.   
      
   Dan   
   (long-time and current Slackware user)  ;-)   
      
      
      
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