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Linspire - The Successor to Lindows (that’s still around) | MJD (youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing
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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

tl;dr:

He buys an official USB stick of it (unbranded), finds out it's an Ubuntu derivative now, with a mix of Gnome and KDE apps, and anything that was proprietary Linspire software on it hasn't been updated for a decade. Concludes it must be for schools and corporations wanting an official support team.

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! So nice of you to summarize!