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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: ALT_Linux live Trinity Desktop ISO issues that make me nervous

From: "Marvin Jones via trinity-devel" <trinity-devel@...>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 07:02:18 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 11 May 2020, Keith Daniels wrote:

>My fault...  It was kinda funny when I finally found out what had
>happened.  It wasn't Alt_Linux at all, they had nothing to do with it.
>
>When I started the installation of ALT_Linux  I moved the spare testing
>computer  into my room to work on it and borrowed my son's monitor because
>I didn't have a spare one.  The first thing I installed was ALT_Linux.
>Since the install was going to wipe the system I didn't pay attention to
>the install startup.  Later when I saw the Russian Language box on the
>screen, I thought "why not, it's a Russian build".  Afterwards, when I
>finished the second Q4OS install, over the  original ALT_Linux install, I
>noticed the box was still there.  This led to hours of trying to figure out
>why, which I gave up on.
>
>So, I took his monitor back about an hour ago, plugged it in and started
>his computer up, and there was the box with the Russian text.  Duh.....  I
>then asked him if he had seen this before and he said: "Sure, I can't get
>rid of it."  I growled... "What do you mean?"  He said well, one day I
>noticed you could change the language of the monitor and was playing around
>with it and turned on the Russian and then, since I can't read Russian, I
>couldn't figure out how to put it back to English and left it like
>that..."
>
>Sometimes I wonder why I had children....

Thank you for a very enjoyable story to start my day!!
Of course, nothing like that has ever happened to me!  :-)

Jonesy