Subj : distro
To   : Denn
From : KK4QBN
Date : Thu Dec 21 2017 04:29:10

  Re: distro
  By: Denn to KK4QBN on Wed Dec 20 2017 22:10:34

 De> MS contributed $500,000 to Linux last I heard, MS is interested in Linux
 De> Cloud and Server, I doubt they will ever want anything to do with Linux as
 De> a desktop. 

As long as it stays at that, I'm happy.. I'm not using ubuntu at the moment,
but that still do'nt mean I do'nt enjoy it. I always like the KDE desktop
though, if I'm going to do X. I'm trying to work on shying away fron X
altogether. it's cool that ms hooked the open source community up with some
money. bt I just cannot see them doing this wihtout some alterior motive.. 

even the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation saves them so much money every year,
that it is just stupid for them to not donate for the right offs.


I believe everythin wth Bill is cold, calculated, and to the point. and I
would'nt know what it would look like, but the evolution of personal computing
woul'nt be what it is today without MS.

I just hope this MS/Linux marraige does'nt go to far because shuttleworth had
500,000 shuffled in front of him.  the devel versions of windows 10 was great
at first with a nice cool native, then every update yo culd feel it get more
and more bulkly, slower, and buggy. 

I hope the same does'nt go for Ubuntu, I hope no amount of code whatsowever
from MS makes its way into any ubuntu distro.

and if they end up dropping the flavors like lubuntu, mate, kubuntu, etc.. so
they will only have the origina ubuntu to keep up with azure, you'll never see
me go back to ubuntuland. right now I'm happy as hell with the Debian version
of Mint.

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