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Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond October 20,2023 Tomorrow is the beginning of a new Era at Carol’s Pond. I will deliver the last Windows 7 computer I have. I have now converted all of my remaining computers to Linux Mint. Linux started out as Unix and I had training on it in the early Eighties. Back then, it was very primitive. Basically a POS. But it has grown up so to speak. It is now a menu driven system and beats Windows hands down. There are a host of Linux Distros as they are called. Mint is the flagship followed closely by Ubuntu. For minimal systems like an old Apple Macbook I have, I have Linux MX on it and while not full featured like Mint and Ubuntu, it gives new life to old PCs. I saw some new wildlife this past week and it died suddenly and severely. As I was going around behind my GMC, I noticed a large spider. By large, its leg span was about like a half dollar and possible a silver dollar. It was the first t