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-=> 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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