<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 12:27 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>The writer of that article says he learned more about it and can
no longer recommend it. The headline now reads:</p>
<p>Why I no longer recommend this Windows-like Linux distro<br>
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<div>On 12/11/24 11:28, Arun Khan via
PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:monospace">I
came across a ZDNET article</div>
<div style="font-family:monospace">"<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This Linux
distro is so Windows-like, it even comes with Microsoft
apps"</span></div>
<div style="font-family:monospace"><<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-is-so-windows-like-it-even-comes-with-microsoft-apps/" target="_blank">https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-is-so-windows-like-it-even-comes-with-microsoft-apps/</a>></div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace">Perhaps,
this is the Linux distro to help you (your colleague) to a
Linux OS based desktop </div>
<div style="font-family:monospace">Hosted
at SourceForge -- download link:</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-ubuntu/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-ubuntu/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:monospace"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Thanks for the heads up. You beat me to it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I took it for a spin (Vbox VM) and found out about the purchase of a "license key" to unlock the "Windows apps" during the installation process.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I contacted the support team on some other issue -- the ISO shasum is only sha1sum and the GPG keys are missing v/s every other Linux distro uses sha256sum and provides the GPG keys to authenticate the shasums.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">I am sticking to Kubuntu / Lubuntu / Mint :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Arun Khan</div></div></div>