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My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

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“I've kept some version of Linux in a dual-boot configuration ever since (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Debian sid, and for 10 years Debian testing).”

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My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years

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