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    From Matheo Syversen@1:103/705 to All on Thu Aug 7 05:07:26 2025
    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 7 05:56:10 2025
    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

    Both good choices. My current adventure is linux from scratch.

    https://linuxfromscratch.org

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MATHEO SYVERSEN on Thu Aug 7 09:45:08 2025
    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

    Debian. I have used it for about 20 years now. I run a derivative,
    Devuan, on a couple of boxes.


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  • From Stephan Gebbers@2:240/5411 to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 7 17:10:04 2025
    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

    I love Mint for Desktop. For Servers, Debian 1st and Ubuntu 2nd. Alpine for the smallest minimal Docker containers.

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  • From Ivan Zelenyi@2:5023/24.3926 to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 7 20:31:58 2025
    Hello, Matheo Syversen.
    On 07.08.2025 05:07 you wrote:

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
    1. Mint XFCE
    2. XUbuntu or Lubuntu


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  • From Stephan Gebbers@2:240/5411 to Ivan Zelenyi on Thu Aug 7 18:41:33 2025
    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Ivan Zelenyi to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 07 2025 20:31:58

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
    1. Mint XFCE
    2. XUbuntu or Lubuntu

    +1 for Mint XFCE. i use it instead of Cinnamon when the system is a bit older. For example, i have Mint XFCE on a HP ThinClient in the living room and Mint Cinnamon on my MiniPC in the "Office".

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  • From Artem Nemenchinsky@2:382/200 to Matheo Syversen on Thu Aug 7 23:22:06 2025
    Hi Matheo,

    07 Aug 25 05:07, you wrote to All:
    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
    Use Gentoo for some time and really like it

    Regards,
    Artem

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  • From Mortar M.@1:124/5016 to Matheo Syversen on Sat Aug 9 13:01:24 2025
    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

    Hate to be redundant, but Mint is mine as well.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Mortar M. on Sun Aug 10 08:10:31 2025
    Mortar M. wrote to Matheo Syversen <=-

    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07:26

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint

    Hate to be redundant, but Mint is mine as well.

    I like Mint, too - but thinking about moving to plain ol' Debian. I
    started using LMDE on my laptop, but I'm looking back to a simple
    interface and having less temptation to change things around.



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  • From Mortar M.@1:124/5016 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Aug 11 09:39:10 2025
    Re: Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Kurt Weiske to Mortar M. on Sun Aug 10 2025 08:10:31

    ...I'm looking back to a simple interface...

    If you want to get back to basics, then check out Slackware or Arch. It don't get more "simple" than those...interface wise.
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  • From Ivan Zelenyi@2:5023/24.3926 to Mortar M. on Mon Aug 11 21:21:37 2025
    Hello, Mortar M..
    On 11.08.2025 09:39 you wrote:

    If you want to get back to basics, then check out Slackware or Arch. It don't get more
    "simple" than those...interface wise.

    Yesterday I installed slackware 14.2 xfce on an old computer at work (1.8 GHz, 1 GB DDR). It was my first experience with Slackware. It is stable and fast :-)

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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to Matheo Syversen on Sat Aug 16 13:21:01 2025
    I have only used LiveCD's of Ubuntu and Mint tosee what's what with Linux. Played more with Ubuntu, first with 7.04 and then several LTS versions .

    Even put Ubuntu in an Innotek VirtualBox to play some on the XP box long ago.

    Liked Ubuntu but haven't used it in years
    Think the last U'u I downloaded on the XP was v.16 or v. 18 before loosing DSL service for the desktop system.

    I don't care much tapping on the cellphone virtual keyboard so know I won't eventhink of trying out Linux on this thing
    Though, I still can play with U'u on the XP box when or if I want to , as I still have the CD's I put the D/L's on.
    Ed
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  • From Jonathan A Lloyd@1:103/705 to Matheo Syversen on Wed Sep 3 20:47:37 2025
    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?
    By: Matheo Syversen to All on Thu Aug 07 2025 05:07 am

    Whats your favorite Linux distro? Mine are Arch and Mint
    For me, it really depends on what I'm using it for. Dedicated projects tend to get either Arch or another very specific/specialized distro. For server/networking stuff, it's Ubuntu. For peronal use, Fedora has effectively won my heart.

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Jonathan A Lloyd on Thu Sep 4 10:31:00 2025
    Re: Whats your favorite Linux distro in general?

    I tried to put Linux Mint Cinammon on what was my late Mom's
    computer, but apparently the motherboard was too old to support
    it. It apparently installed OK, but after I reboot, I couldn't
    get past the password prompt to login.

    Daryl

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