Old Fart

I look forward to Grumpy Old Geeks Podcast every week. Two old timers from the tech industry. tagline for the show is “What went wrong on the internet and whose to blame.”

ditto

Always always always have 3 places where you store your data. Your main data store. Another storage location and then one offsite. And like others have said…check your backups occasionally to make sure you can successfully restore from them.

They’re owned by Microsoft?

I’ve used pretty much every distro under the sun since I started using Linux as my primary desktop in 2001. I’m actually running Garuda now on my laptop and main desktop machine and love it.

I think Garuda is rock solid stable (it’s Arch so of course it is). I haven’t found a software package not available easily.

Give it a try. If you don’t like it then try something else. Thats what makes Linux so great. There’s so many choices.

Was thinking of all the distros I’ve run over the years. I know this isn’t a complete list and not in any particular order…

• redhat
• centos
• MX Linux
• Linux Mint
• PCLinuxOS
• Mandriva
• Gentoo
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• OpenSUSE
• Arch

and now Garuda.