I installed Sparky Linux 7 on my backup laptop computer because I failed to install Debian.

Maybe Sparky Linux …

Normally, I use Debian. However, Debian 12 installer didn’t work on my Acer Extensa 💻. So I installed Sparky Linux, and it works.

People claiming Linux isn’t a viable alternative cause you can’t run it without using the command line.

Even in 2024, many people begin using GNU/Linux with Arch Linux or Ubuntu with apt-get, then later they complain that Linux is not for average users. Maybe the community needs more GUI only tutorials.

Like Thinkpad, the main brand is Lenovo. Thinkbook keyboard is like Acer and other brands.

I’m using Lenovo ThinkBook, which is cheaper than Thinkpad, and the keyboard layout is different. It supports upto 40GB of RAM.

RK3588 is used in many Linux devices, but I’m not sure if Rockchip is in the BDS list. I don’t know which factory was RK3588 from.

I heard that Linux gets new patches for Loongson, but I didn’t try it yet.

Yes, it is stable.

Because of the Redhat incident, I started to see people asking for community-based distros without a corporate that dominates the community. And, Mageia is one of them. So, I hope it will be more popular.

• KDE is the default. So, for KDE users, Mageia with KDE was tested.
• Mageia comes with Drake tools for configuring almost everything. IMO *drakes look quite friendly. Since they have been around for 20+ years, they must be stable.
• Each release will be supported for 18 months, which is longer than Fedora.

One is that it’s a shell script,

Using Bash sounds convincing to me.

Do you also dislike openSUSE and openMandriva?