From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:58:36 -0500
From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: linux desktop in trouble
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:58:36 -0400
Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn
Message-ID: <usea7f5sejtm1jqiml6ainnuhoeptn8dh5@4ax.com>
References: <7dfe88e3-d509-49d1-998c-ce494133890c@googlegroups.com>
 <9d213970-a6da-e0af-7e61-99dd2c772080@planet.nl>
 <r4vbhl$u5l$1@gioia.aioe.org>
 <b11b23e7-fec1-4deb-ba63-2cb0b4e15f5c@googlegroups.com>
 <r539te$50i$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
X-No-Archive: YES
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: 
 sv3-awS98J1SOqqDjENlq5DKBvfliSJvBfBFnnruwk8tmed8CN15PHGI+e2mIDh0i7cb0OB4C/ZIejawftC!U3WS1wD5R8Am27pgEMbVK3e3d6LcoOMoktKYf7k0bEaHjFmBaKs8N+SbGaPbHNJ/2DZRkZTc
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint
 properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 1840
Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58222
Date: 2020-03-20T17:58:36-04:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:43:25 -0500, "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
declaimed the following:


>
>Sure, but does anyone actually use that for desktop software? I've never 
>once gotten anything from it.
>

	Probably doesn't count as "desktop software" since it only supports a
command line interface... I've installed the Debian (and Ubuntu for some
reason) "Linux on Windows" packages via the M$ Store <G>



-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
	wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/