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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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