@Emanate Presence :-
Heh. You're now in the same place that a ton of Linux newbies find themselves in; do I possess the determination to soldier on & try to figure out a clear path through the morass of terminology and versions.......or do I retreat to the safety & familiarity of Windows, where's there's only the ONE way of doing things?
It has for long enough been a familiar complaint from beginners; "Why does there have to be so MUCH 'choice'? I'm getting confused.....my head hurts!"
Of course, when you have a Debian-based version of Mint.....AND an Ubuntu-based version of Mint.....and THEN you find out that Ubuntu is in fact built around Debian architecture anyway, well; the confusion is perfectly understandable!
(Most of us pick a lot of these snippets of knowledge up over the course of time. Here, with your admitted unique approach to totally familiarising yourself with an OS before installing it, you're getting something of an in-yer-face, "crash-course" in this stuff all at once!)
Mike.
Heh. You're now in the same place that a ton of Linux newbies find themselves in; do I possess the determination to soldier on & try to figure out a clear path through the morass of terminology and versions.......or do I retreat to the safety & familiarity of Windows, where's there's only the ONE way of doing things?
It has for long enough been a familiar complaint from beginners; "Why does there have to be so MUCH 'choice'? I'm getting confused.....my head hurts!"
Of course, when you have a Debian-based version of Mint.....AND an Ubuntu-based version of Mint.....and THEN you find out that Ubuntu is in fact built around Debian architecture anyway, well; the confusion is perfectly understandable!
(Most of us pick a lot of these snippets of knowledge up over the course of time. Here, with your admitted unique approach to totally familiarising yourself with an OS before installing it, you're getting something of an in-yer-face, "crash-course" in this stuff all at once!)
Mike.

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