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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Coastie on February 12, 2015, 03:11:53 PM

Title: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: Coastie on February 12, 2015, 03:11:53 PM
As you may have already or seen on You Tube, Elementary OS wants you to donate to download their distro http://http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/110645528530/payments (http://http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/110645528530/payments).  :o

I have distro hopped looking for the distro for me. Some I downloaded and liked. Some I could not even install because of no automatic partitioning. I stopped using a rolling release after GUI updater broke. I am still using Linux Lite that I started using in January last year after trying the rolling release for about a month. I still watch and read reviews and download distros to see what they look like and to try find a backup in case my chosen distro, Linux Lite is ever discontinued.  :'(

I have donated to Linux Lite after using awhile and probably will again. :)   I would not "donate" just to try a distro out whether I installed it or just tried it on the live DVD/CD.

I won't buy a car without a test drive either.  ;D
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: altman on February 12, 2015, 03:22:55 PM
Don t know Coastie , bought a brand new car years ago without having a road test , but I think nobody s alike , depends of what reviews  you saw & if it goes with your tastes & wants I believe .
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: N4RPS on February 12, 2015, 06:08:58 PM
Hello!

Coastie, I know what you mean. Besides this one, I haven't run into very many distros I'd support, either - financially or otherwise.

As I approach one year of using LL and participating in the forums here, I guess it's time for me to became a 'donator' - a title that, albeit a correct one, seems a little bit awkward to me. Perhaps it has to something to do with 'the Queen's English'...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: Coastie on February 12, 2015, 06:23:46 PM
Quote from: N4RPS on February 12, 2015, 06:08:58 PM
... a 'donator' - a title that, albeit a correct one, seems a little bit awkward to me. Perhaps it has to something to do with 'the Queen's English'...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Maybe it is the New Zealand English dialect?  ;)
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: Wirezfree on February 12, 2015, 08:17:53 PM
Better than being a Donut or should that be Doughnut  ;) :) :)
Not sure the Queen partakes of such delicacies
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: N4RPS on February 12, 2015, 08:33:25 PM
Quote from: Wirezfree on February 12, 2015, 08:17:53 PM
Better than being a Donut or should that be Doughnut  ;) :) :)
Not sure the Queen partakes of such delicacies

Hello!

If Her Majesty does, it doesn't show, so the world may NEVER know!

A doughnut is a doughnut, unless a cop is munching it. Then it becomes a 'donut', as in 'do nothing'...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: altman on February 12, 2015, 08:47:20 PM
lol , bad boys !
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: ukbrian on February 12, 2015, 09:05:09 PM
Supporter?
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: N4RPS on February 12, 2015, 10:20:06 PM
Hello!

Jerry's show, Jerry's terminology. I can live with being a 'donator'...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: ukbrian on February 12, 2015, 10:40:06 PM
I was very p*ssy when I became a "Senior Member" on the SolusOS forum.
I don't mind old git or most things but to say my member is old and feeble  and past it takes the bisquit even if it's true
(http://i.imgur.com/D3UytpUt.jpg)
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: Wirezfree on February 13, 2015, 03:50:06 AM
Contributor or Benefactor
???
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: ukbrian on February 13, 2015, 03:54:22 AM
Quote
Benefactor
I like
(http://i.imgur.com/xCyMtC9.gif)
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: Coastie on February 13, 2015, 11:07:10 AM
Quote from: N4RPS on February 12, 2015, 10:20:06 PM
Hello!

Jerry's show, Jerry's terminology. ...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob


I agree!  8)
Title: Re: Buy without a test drive!
Post by: technomancer on March 01, 2015, 03:27:25 PM
After using LL and getting support in the forum, I donated/supported with $.
Try paying a small amount for ANYTHING support related with Windoze, LOL.
Whatever you want to call it is fine, just be sure to define what it means.
Awesome community here !