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Perfect Linux
Just how things have moved on in the Linux world from when I first took an interest in the subject back in the 90s. You didn’t have many variants to choose from in the beginning and you seemed to struggle to find things to put on the CD some months, but I always looked forward to picking up the mag from my newsagent and see what’s new.
My favourite was SUSE at the time, but I tried OpenSUSE and RedHat all with the same fail rates on my 486. I even ran BeOS, which I lost months on trying to get to work. It did in a fashion, but it didn’t have any hardware or software support. I didn’t care, though: I just loved the look of it, which is why I tried so hard, but then BeOS decided to throw in the towel, which was sad but inevitable.
Today I’m 61 and was able to pick up a new laptop and then with very little work have a fully working dual-booting machine with Windows 11 and Linux, in a little less than an hour. This included opening it up, adding a second hard drive and installing more RAM.