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...would not exist if they had written in German.

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill this
NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!
--
Of what good are dead warriors? … Warriors are those who desire battle
more than peace. Those who seek battle despite peace. Those who thump
their spears on the ground and talk of honor. Those who leap high the
battle dance and dream of glory … The good of dead warriors, Mother, is
that they are dead.
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill
this NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

You want everyone to use the noobist of noob distros? Ubuntu is Debian
with training wheels. Mint is training wheels on the training
wheels. The problem with Linux is that it stopped being hard. Now we
have eternal september.
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On 5/11/26 11:11, jayjwa wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill
this NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

You want everyone to use the noobist of noob distros? Ubuntu is Debian
with training wheels. Mint is training wheels on the training
wheels. The problem with Linux is that it stopped being hard. Now we
have eternal september.

And what pray tell is wrong with having Eternal-September though it lags behind
me now in final December? The big problem was Windows® and MacOS®
enabling thousands of ignorant people to get on the WWW.
Some of us ignorant folks using other systems were educated by our contact
with the WWW but others continued and did weird things to try to break
what they
did not understand.

bliss
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On 11/05/2026 19:11, jayjwa wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill
this NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

You want everyone to use the noobist of noob distros? Ubuntu is Debian
with training wheels. Mint is training wheels on the training
wheels.

It is clear that the older users need the training wheels.
Linux has simply become too difficult for them

The problem with Linux is that it stopped being hard. Now we
have eternal september.

The problem with Linux gurus is that they have nothing to offer anyone
any more.

They have spent years trying to make people use Linux so they could hold court, but now everyone is using Linux (Mind) no one wants to hear them
hold court any more. And they don't have to, because there aren't any complicated problems. With Mint.

Some people want to enjoy the fuel injected transistorised ignition
drive, not sit at the roadside in the rain unblocking a carburettor and setting their points...
--
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on
intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since...it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into,
we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a
power-directed system of thought.”
Sir Roger Scruton

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/05/2026 19:11, jayjwa wrote:

<snip>

It is clear that the older users need the training wheels.
Linux has simply become too difficult for them

<snip>

What is needed is one of the following:

1. PC/Laptops comes pre-installed with a Linux Distro
or a BSD
2. PC/Laptops come without a pre-installed OS and the
user Needs to purchase Windows or get a free Linux
distro install.

I would prefer # 2, but until Microsoft is forced to
change its ways, Windows will be the most used OS.

You can bet if people had to pay real $ for for Windows,
hardly anyone would be using Windows these days.
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- Paraphrasing Star Wars
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John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/05/2026 19:11, jayjwa wrote:

<snip>

It is clear that the older users need the training wheels.
Linux has simply become too difficult for them

<snip>

What is needed is one of the following:

1. PC/Laptops comes pre-installed with a Linux Distro
or a BSD
2. PC/Laptops come without a pre-installed OS and the
user Needs to purchase Windows or get a free Linux
distro install.

I would prefer # 2, but until Microsoft is forced to
change its ways, Windows will be the most used OS.

You can bet if people had to pay real $ for for Windows,
hardly anyone would be using Windows these days.

There is a reason Gates, way back in the day, wrote his contracts for
OEM's to install windows such that they could not offer computers
without windows pre-installed.

He understood full well that the typical purchaser would simply use
whatever came with the box, and he made sure that something was mswin,
thereby guaranteeing a sale for MS for every computer purchase. And he
very likely, despite all the crowing to the contrary, knew full well
that if the machines shipped bare, and the purchasers then had to
separately pay for an OS (MSwin or otherwise) that he'd not get nearly
as many sales as he got by force tying the two together.

For most people, they are going to take the path of least resistance,
and when every computer in every shop comes with windows almost every
one of the purchasers is just going to "use what came with the box".

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On 5/11/26 13:57, John McCue wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/05/2026 19:11, jayjwa wrote:

<snip>

It is clear that the older users need the training wheels.
Linux has simply become too difficult for them

<snip>

What is needed is one of the following:

1. PC/Laptops comes pre-installed with a Linux Distro
or a BSD

These are available from several suppliers. Look to Distowatch.com.

2. PC/Laptops come without a pre-installed OS and the
user Needs to purchase Windows or get a free Linux
distro install.

Well I get refurbished laptops out of Walmart and install PCLinuxOS
on them which answers my needs.

I would prefer # 2, but until Microsoft is forced to
change its ways, Windows will be the most used OS.

Linux is the most used OS these days but most of it is
on servers or called Android.

You can bet if people had to pay real $ for for Windows,
hardly anyone would be using Windows these days.

They use what they are somewhat familiar with from work
which is in the USA almost always the Microsloth product.

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

...would not exist if they had written in German.

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill this
NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

Hardly. But of course you're free to unsubscribe from here and just
use alt.os.linux.mint, where I guess nobody ever has any problems
at all?
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On Mon, 11 May 2026 20:57:09 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

What is needed is one of the following:

1. PC/Laptops comes pre-installed with a Linux Distro or a BSD
2. PC/Laptops come without a pre-installed OS and the user Needs
to purchase Windows or get a free Linux distro install.

Quite a few vendors offering one or the other: Dell, Lenovo,
Framework, Tuxedo, System76 ...

Have a look at this comparison
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvYt1GgcsUI> with a MacBook Neo.
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Well ... it's FRENCH after all ! :-)

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On 5/11/26 18:24, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

...would not exist if they had written in German.

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill this
NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

Hardly. But of course you're free to unsubscribe from here and just
use alt.os.linux.mint, where I guess nobody ever has any problems
at all?

Correct - MINT is perfect !!!

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On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:00:01 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

...would not exist if they had written in German.

It occurs to me that all the problems of various distros that fill this
NG would not exist...
... if everybody installed Linux Mint.!

A French Heidegger would be a wonder to behold. Descartes did enough
damage.
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On Mon, 11 May 2026 20:57:09 -0000 (UTC), John McCue
<jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

What is needed is one of the following:

1. PC/Laptops comes pre-installed with a Linux Distro
or a BSD
2. PC/Laptops come without a pre-installed OS and the
user Needs to purchase Windows or get a free Linux
distro install.

I would prefer # 2, but until Microsoft is forced to
change its ways, Windows will be the most used OS.

My present desktop computer, on which I'm typing this, came with no
O/S as in #2.

I restored my Acronis backups from the previous one, C & D drives on
Drive 0 and E, F, & G drives on drive 1.

It booted Windows XP and ran like nothing had happened,

I then installed Fedora dual-boot from a DVD that came with a magazine
and that ran fine too.

But Windows XP didn't need you to phone home all the time to work.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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On Tue, 12 May 2026 07:37:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I restored my Acronis backups from the previous one, C & D drives on
Drive 0 and E, F, & G drives on drive 1.

It booted Windows XP and ran like nothing had happened,

Last I checked, OEM Windows licences are not transferable to a
different machine.
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On 5/12/26 01:50, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 2026 07:37:09 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:

I restored my Acronis backups from the previous one, C & D drives on
Drive 0 and E, F, & G drives on drive 1.

It booted Windows XP and ran like nothing had happened,

Last I checked, OEM Windows licences are not transferable to a
different machine.

Technically not. However M$ seems to have
abandoned policing their Old Shit.

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