From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:43:28 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > I started with RedHat but Richard K had  always raved about Debian so I   
   > started with that, but got fed up with the fact that Stable was years   
   > behind the curve...so tried Ubuntu and didn't really like it and every   
   > was raving about MINT so I installed it and mostly it Just Worked.   
      
   I dropped Red Hat Linux in 2000 when they released the broken gcc 2.96. I   
   liked KDE so I went with SuSE. My last Linux box at work was Debian since   
   I needed a 32-bit OS and they were one of the few left. When you're   
   dealing with legacy code years behind the curve helps. It wasn't so much   
   running on Linux as the Windows code was tied to 32-bit third party APIs.   
      
   Mint wasn't on my radar until it was mentioned in this group. I fired up a   
   live session but didn't see anything special so didn't install it. Then   
   the library project focused on Mint so I put it on a laptop.   
      
   Ubuntu on the mini was a fluke but I've lived with it. I'm lazy and it has   
   T-Bird set up for mail and Pan.   
      
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