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On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to
somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed. A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try. But I suspect that
you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor, spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.
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At Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:52 -0400, Tom Elam <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to
somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed. A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try. But I suspect that
you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor, spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

Uh huh.
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Tom Elam wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to
somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed. A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try. But I suspect that
you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor, spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

Drivers are a rare issue these days.

Granted, maybe your favorite brands are not available, but you can
find good and great software for:

- Software and web development
- Audio, video, and picture editing
- MIDI editors and sequencers
- Podcasting, video recording, and live-streaming
- Audio and video stream readers
- SysML modeling
- System monitoring
- Software synthesizers

As a side note, software written in Python and Java are widely
portable. yt-dlp and MagicDraw (Cameo Systems Modeler) are two
examples, one free, the other pretty expensive but perhaps the
best in the business.
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You cannot determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
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On 4/14/26 8:25 AM, vallor wrote:

At Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:52 -0400, Tom Elam <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to
somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed. A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try. But I suspect that
you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the
software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor,
spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

Uh huh.

Notice how Tom admits needing his computer to "support" his "watch". I
did not like the smartwatch. It was goofy. It's barely more functional
the the iPhone Pocket, heh. Just a way to get people to buy things they
don't need.
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:52 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor, spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

People who use software only available for Windows should stay with
Windows. Personally, VS Code, Python, Arduino IDEs, QGIS, Node, C/C++ compilers, Vim, clang, and so forth are cross platform. I don't need a
word processor or spreadsheet but Brave and Thunderbird are also cross platform.
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On 2026-04-14 8:25 a.m., vallor wrote:

At Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:52 -0400, Tom Elam <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to
somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed. A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try. But I suspect that
you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the
software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor,
spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

Uh huh.

Where is he lying?
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On 4/14/2026 9:17 AM, Joel W. Crump wrote:

On 4/14/26 8:25 AM, vallor wrote:

At Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:12:52 -0400, Tom Elam <[email protected]>
wrote:

On 4/1/26 7:42 AM, chrisv wrote:

Tom Elam wrote:

Let me have the address of the local Linux Store so I can go talk to >>>>> somebody about which of the ~600 active distros fits my needs.

With freedom to choose comes the responsibility to learn-about or ask
or try different options.

For desktop computing, a small amount of research may be needed.  A
simple google search and reading an article or two will usually
narrow-down the selection to a few distros to try.  But I suspect that >>>> you already knew this.

Preferably one that supports tablets, phones and a watch.

For devices like that, you should probably choose between Android and
iOS.

So actually I looked at Linux generically. Discovered that most of the
software I use will not run on the OS. The real investment becomes
finding substitutes. Unless all you need is a browser, word processor,
spreadsheet and email. And all your current hardware happens to have
drivers available. A Linux advocate once told me if something does not
work just write my own driver. No thanks.

Uh huh.

Notice how Tom admits needing his computer to "support" his "watch".

Notice how you don't understand what you just read. Tom did NOT say that.

Try reading it again. Slowly. Perhaps being sober (for a change) might
also help.

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