Hello Mark,

On Sat Feb 06 2021 19:53:06, Mark Seifert wrote to All:

 MS> I have been a user of both Windows and Linux/Unix for a while.. I have
 MS> 2 questions..

 MS> 1) Any one possibly tell me why everytime I try to "make" I get
 MS> errors, snap, flatpack, appimage, .deb and rpm work fine but if I have
 MS> to try to "make" it fails.  Any suggestions..?

You probably don't have the coreutils package installed, and if it doesn't come with it, gcc.

 MS> I'm currently using Mint 18.3.. am looking at moving to 20.1 so it is
 MS> supported until 2025 as 18.3 ends it support in April 2021.. :(

Sorry, no experience with that. But I would think they will fix that issue by April. ;)

 MS> Otherwise I love Mint, been using it exclusively as my primary OS for
 MS> 5 years... Some people are gamers, I've always been a software tester
 MS> instead.. I've tried most varients of Unix/Linux and most other OS's..
 MS> I've been using a computer since I was 15 and I'm 53 now.

Have you really tried most variants? Theres so many out there I don't even want to try them all.

I'm a fan of Archlinux. So, if you want to try a GUI version of it you can take a look at Manjaro. It's probably more "bleeding edge" than any debian based distro. I've used this for over 5 years and never had to reinstall the whole damn system, like I had to do with Debian based crap in the past (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc).

Sorry, Debian based stuff got on my bad side early years ago. However I commend Ubuntu on their work to switch Windows users over and trying to make it as easy as possible.

Regards,
Nick

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